Stick to what you know

[TekkenAttic]

Hello My name is Jesse and I am with the sticktowhatyouknow.com the movie we were looking for some people to critique our photos for the movie. This is a great board and it looks like thier are alot of really friendly and honest people on this board so here goes nothin here is a photo that was shot by the director of the movie Liza Trainer its a shot of the set part, well of the set, I want an straight forward don't pull any punches critique of the photo especially since I didn't take it LOL, I am doing all of the digital editing for the photos though so here it is I had to compress it for the web so its a little grainy but the original isn't





We built everything in the photo props included and went with an red saturation adjustment for the final result

[TekkenAttic]

I did this in photoshop and I though it came out looking neat but what do you think? the Original was shot with a 3 megapixel sony digital camera and then edited with photoshop the original was to light so I went in and adjusted the levels and the curves to darken it without making blurring oversaturating the picture. sorry I didn't realize the image was so big I will size it down.

[TekkenAttic]

this is A picture that was retouched in Photoshop, of Stephanie she is a model and the lead actress in our movie

I thought this picture came out pretty good Stephanie is beautiful and I think she looks the part

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Like what you did with the coloured eyes with Sepia everything else
Makes her look scary, which is the whole point
Plus its not exaggerated like some PSed stuff that make eyes bright orange or red

[TekkenAttic]

QUOTE=92135011]Like what you did with the coloured eyes with Sepia everything else
Makes her look scary, which is the whole point
Plus its not exaggerated like some PSed stuff that make eyes bright orange or red[/QUOTE]


Thanks for the feedback, you were right on the mark with your analysis, Stephanie (Monique in the movie) Is supposed to be beautiful yet have and eerie presence about her. We have put alot of thought into the presentation of the movie that is why the photographs are such an important aspect of the movie. If we can create the mood with stills it will translate to the live motion. Here is an interesting fact all of the original cinematographers during the birth of motion pictures were well known photographers. The movie is a suspense/thriller and the director makes you believe that monique is a vampire by how she is shot and not her dialogue. We are still fine tuning the character, thank you for the input, now I know we are at least going in the right direction with te photographs.

[Steph_B]

Hello My name is Jesse and I am with the sticktowhatyouknow.com the movie

Does not look like a G rated movie! Can you tell us more about it? What is this all about?

The dead guy pic does not work for me. Somehow, there are too many objects cluttering the environment and distracting from the main subject. I think the TV must go because its color tone is too different from the rest. Maybe a lower viewpoint would have emphasized the guy. Maybe more guts spill and a whiter cruder light would have worked better! But that just my deranged self speaking here!

As for the portrait... mmm.. I like what you did in PS. However, the forehead crop is a bit brutal. I keep on hesitating whether the girl or the mean looking gun is the subject. I would not have put the gun in the FG so close to the face of your model. They both compete for attention.

That's just my 2 cents.

Cheers,

Steph.

[GB1]

this is A picture that was retouched in Photoshop, of Stephanie she is a model and the lead actress in our movie

I thought this picture came out pretty good Stephanie is beautiful and I think she looks the part

Since you asked:

The editing is quite good. The first scene with the cross looks a little 60ish but that's an effect that might be good for the flick (??).

The poster-like graphic looks pretty good to me. its slightly monochromatic, which is not criticism; you have to play around with a dozen or so variations to see what works. This may indeed be the best, but I feel like something might be missing. I would use a Bold font (making the characters thicker) on the "Stick To What You Know" text on the side.

I think Stephanie's got it. She appears to have the ability to look good and scare you at the same time: she's multi-dimensional. Keep her on track. Looks like a Terminator actress.

Thanks for requesting that the viewer don't pull punches. I was never very good at that anyways - GB

[TekkenAttic]

Does not look like a G rated movie! Can you tell us more about it? What is this all about?

The dead guy pic does not work for me. Somehow, there are too many objects cluttering the environment and distracting from the main subject. I think the TV must go because its color tone is too different from the rest. Maybe a lower viewpoint would have emphasized the guy. Maybe more guts spill and a whiter cruder light would have worked better! But that just my deranged self speaking here!

As for the portrait... mmm.. I like what you did in PS. However, the forehead crop is a bit brutal. I keep on hesitating whether the girl or the mean looking gun is the subject. I would not have put the gun in the FG so close to the face of your model. They both compete for attention.

That's just my 2 cents.

Cheers,

Steph.

thank you for critiquing the photos you had some valid points I will keep them in mind for when I am editing in the future. unfortuately I didn't get complete creative freedom in terms the outcome of the photos. The pictures of Stephanie were done that way to give her an eerie prescence, I don't think her head should have been cropped either but I didn't get to make that call. As far as the deadguy on the cieling, We made him here in our studio out of spare clothes and a some other junk that was laying around. I will have to see if I can find a better picture of him the equiptment blocks him a little.

As far as the movie, despite popular belief we are not making a horror movie, Its a suspense/thriller. We are doing the movie online, I know its going to sound insane but we are asking for people to actually critique real clips, photos and audio before the movie goes to the box office. Our belief is that we want to make the best movie possible. What better way than to have the audience interact with the crew and help. We have been recieving help from people all over the U.S. And just recently people from all over the world.

All we are doing is allowing the audience to decide what clips stay and which ones go, people have submitted work to us music photos and stock footage. And the cool thing aobut this project is when its all finished the people who contributed and gave feedback get credit.

[TekkenAttic]

Since you asked:

The editing is quite good. The first scene with the cross looks a little 60ish but that's an effect that might be good for the flick (??).

The poster-like graphic looks pretty good to me. its slightly monochromatic, which is not criticism; you have to play around with a dozen or so variations to see what works. This may indeed be the best, but I feel like something might be missing. I would use a Bold font (making the characters thicker) on the "Stick To What You Know" text on the side.

I think Stephanie's got it. She appears to have the ability to look good and scare you at the same time: she's multi-dimensional. Keep her on track. Looks like a Terminator actress.

Thanks for requesting that the viewer don't pull punches. I was never very good at that anyways - GB

Thank you,

I am glad you like the pictures, I think your are right about the picture of the manican. I will go back in and in and do some adjustments on the levels and may add a little bit of lightness to it so it brings the subject to the foreground, the more I look at it I think that the background drowns out the subject. I have the image saved as a psd and one thing I learned as a web designer and graphic designer is that you have to keep your options open. The one thing you worked on the hardest is the one thing they are going to change.
So I keep the original un-edited version of the file with the psd, and use adjustment layers not instead of overloading the picture with filters, that way if the client wants to change something I don't have to start from scratch.

As far as Stephanie we met her because she did a shoot at our studio, She was hired to do a shoot for Body Gear, we got along with her so well she started hanging around, then we found out she had acting experience and thats all she wrote. As far as the text I think you are right but when you have a creative director looking over your shoulder you have to do what you are told.

I like honest critiques, I would rather someone think that something they would say will hurt my feeling rather than them holding back and not giving a good critique.