Re: Looking for honest feedback from pros on some corporate videos...

I looked at the 50+ piece and the social media thing in part...

Audio...the audio is not good. Your images are pretty straightforward so you at least have to have good audio...in the 50+ piece male voice and the presenter's voice in the social media piece, it sounds overdriven, and therefore seems low end.

Try not to shoot interviewees from a hard profile like the 50+ piece. That woman is hard profile in her one shot during the interview. Looking at someone's ear center screen is not flattering for anybody. get the camera out in front of her so she's looking only slightly off-angle when she's speaking. The camera angle in this interview looks like it's angled down, as if the camera is higher than the interviewee/er... When you have a message you're presenting to a "peer" (friendly, professional, etc.), having the camera at eye level is best. A high angle seems a bit like a voyeur (security cam) and less like a participant...

Also in the 50+ piece...and this is a tough one to overlook from a marketing company...the woman being interviewed has her ID graphic cut off at the bottom of the screen, I assume from a pre-compression crop. Hard to ask her to participate a second time for the exposure...her company name never showed up.

On the social networking piece...I'm sure it seemed really hip at the time, but whip-zooming the presenter around the screen (as a floating greenscreened element) is distracting. A hard take to different framing would likely be less jarring (yes, I know it would create some stress on eally aggressive compression...)

Only got a chance to glance at two...hopefully some of that makes sense...





TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects