Hi Ben
I’m glad to meet you. First of all you do good work. I looked at some of the other stuff on your link and I like what I see. ( keep it in mind I’m no expert)
I’d like to ride the coattails of the following contributers.
Hope this helps you.
1- Mark Susko brings in a great point by mentioning the ‘rule of thirds’.. And the eye positions. (I’m gonna try to remember that one myself). This is really good stuff.
2- Curt Schulz is also very ‘on key’ by mentioning the ‘jump cut’ that occurs in your composition. He suggested the dissolves, I do almost all dissolves on my work and take the time to experiment with changes in the amount of time I set them to. Some work looks really good with a default of about a second but if the pace is fast then I will trim back the time in frames until the dissolve is present but very subtle. For you piece I’d suggest very fast dissolves because your not taking the viewer to another place or time as if a new chapter had begun. But the viewer is watching the same event in the same place and time so here the fast dissolve is for esthetics.
3- Brian Mulligan advised taking the cameras apart and having Pastor turn at given intervals of the class and again this is a good suggestion. I think it’s the sort of thing that can make the piece look like most professional productions. And the new angles should serve to refresh the viewers attention. I’d say that the longer the piece your working on the more you’d need to consider the change in angles.
Be blessed
Joe Garcia
Gen 1:1
JOE
Gen 1:1