I really liked the way that you guys tackled what is in the present world, a very difficult subject matter. For men who are fighting that battle of "keeping it real until you meet the one" I think this message is strong. The writer did a good job as did the actor.
That is the reason I gave it a four star.
That being said, and I was very lenient by not lowering the rating more, the cinematography needed some work, especially in the scenes before and after the open mic scene.
Opening: Beautiful and cinematic, until we hit the first interaction between characters, there we broke the line but not in a good way, it made me immediately notice the switch in camera angles and that's not good.
The next thing I noticed quite a bit was after the mic scene, which in itself I thought was a nice touch between a music video and documentary style shoot.
We have this build up of a potent message, then you kind of threw it away, again not in a good way. We don't know how the owner of the joint felt about that message, if it had an effect or not.
Then the last interaction felt a little rushed.... that could have been something in the writing though too. Then why was it raining at the end? It worked as an idea, to cool down a hot day, but it was incongruous to the story ending, also it was very noticeably fake rain, so I didn't think there was much of need for it.
Anyways, that's my opinion and like I said, I enjoyed the film! The credits were also particularly well done!! Please take a moment to watch and review my latest teaser trailer for The Relay:
That is the reason I gave it a four star.
That being said, and I was very lenient by not lowering the rating more, the cinematography needed some work, especially in the scenes before and after the open mic scene.
Opening: Beautiful and cinematic, until we hit the first interaction between characters, there we broke the line but not in a good way, it made me immediately notice the switch in camera angles and that's not good.
The next thing I noticed quite a bit was after the mic scene, which in itself I thought was a nice touch between a music video and documentary style shoot.
We have this build up of a potent message, then you kind of threw it away, again not in a good way. We don't know how the owner of the joint felt about that message, if it had an effect or not.
Then the last interaction felt a little rushed.... that could have been something in the writing though too. Then why was it raining at the end? It worked as an idea, to cool down a hot day, but it was incongruous to the story ending, also it was very noticeably fake rain, so I didn't think there was much of need for it.
Anyways, that's my opinion and like I said, I enjoyed the film! The credits were also particularly well done!! Please take a moment to watch and review my latest teaser trailer for The Relay:
