Symphonious7's BRUTAL Reviews

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will continue reviewing tomorrow, my goal is to knock two out in one day :)
 
GuerrillaDayProject said:
Symphonius7, Lay it on us Kimosabe. We're working hard to gain an audience, with some exciting new videos in post production we want to have paved the road for audience retention. You can be as thorough as you please in your review of our channel-- we won't have our feelings hurt in this process.
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Ok first thing's first. What happened with the audio guys? Parts of it are clear and at a good volume, parts of it are muffled and you can't even hear what's being said. I get the feeling that this was some kind of social statement about people thinking they have something of value to say when they really are saying nothing more relevant than a bum on the street who wants a smoke. That was the impression I got, but it was very hard to tell with the volume changing in volume and distorting in places.

What I COULD understand just didn't seem very... it was obscure. Like.. perhaps someone who knows the social stigma you are trying to invoke would get it? But most of my friends would probably be as lost as me, talking about std's and how the asian wants to be black, I just really didn't understand what you were going for. This once again may have been heavily influenced by my inability to stand the audio.

I wish I had more to say but there wasn't much else to this video, I kept waiting for something to jump out and surprise me, make sense of the dialogue that I COULD understand and help me to get the point, but it ended and I was no more sure of what I saw than when I was watching it from the beginning.

The only thing I can really say I did enjoy was the way it was shot, and the actors themselves. They were believable actors playing believable characters, but the dialogue made little sense to me when I could understand it, and in alot of parts I couldn't even understand it. I'm assuming something glitched when you uploaded it or exported it out of your movie editor. But even with that audio fixed I'm not sure the dialogue would have made much more sense to me, it was very hard to understand the intent of this video for me.

For those of you who don't know what Geurrilla's channel is like, let me add I've seen videos from them I HIGHLY enjoyed and subbed them immediately when I first found them, so don't see this review and think their channel is all weird and hard to get, this particular vid just did not impact me.
 
You're absolutely right in regard to our audio recording-- that is the one department that we have the least control over. I'm surprised to hear that it's inaudable to the degree of the conversation not making sense. But then I remember the circumstances of the day that we we're shooting, and can only smile at the marvel of the sound that exists. We've got some great five minute episodes of our best series to date, which will not be released until completely repaired and A.D.R.'d. It's such an extensive process, and often you can tell immediately that a films been dubbed-- so as actors we prefer to present the production sound. But then, I think about the content at this point in the series-- this is the third webisode of "I'm Going On Break", and it doesn't spend time explaining itself. Reason being this is 100% improv'd material. The script was shot, but that scene will never air. Instead the wild takes from the day were used to edit three original scenarios. So a Five minute short becomes three webisodes which hopefully give a sense of the characters prior to arriving at this conversation. When I submitted our work to the thread, I was under the impression that you were doing channel reviews. Wouldn't of thrown you into the middle of the world. We are using this third episode as a promoted video, hopefully peaking interest enough to draw our audience into watching from our channel. Promotion is tough, and we're still figuring out the best way to go about it.

I wont elaborate on the meanings of the dialogue. It's worth discovering. At least when the moment happened on set, everybody started sweating uncontrollably.
Thanks for the Brutal Review, Symphonious7 We appreciate your criticism at Guerrilla Day Project
 
GuerrillaDayProject said:
You're absolutely right in regard to our audio recording-- that is the one department that we have the least control over. I'm surprised to hear that it's inaudable to the degree of the conversation not making sense. But then I remember the circumstances of the day that we we're shooting, and can only smile at the marvel of the sound that exists. We've got some great five minute episodes of our best series to date, which will not be released until completely repaired and A.D.R.'d. It's such an extensive process, and often you can tell immediately that a films been dubbed-- so as actors we prefer to present the production sound. But then, I think about the content at this point in the series-- this is the third webisode of "I'm Going On Break", and it doesn't spend time explaining itself. Reason being this is 100% improv'd material. The script was shot, but that scene will never air. Instead the wild takes from the day were used to edit three original scenarios. So a Five minute short becomes three webisodes which hopefully give a sense of the characters prior to arriving at this conversation. When I submitted our work to the thread, I was under the impression that you were doing channel reviews. Wouldn't of thrown you into the middle of the world. We are using this third episode as a promoted video, hopefully peaking interest enough to draw our audience into watching from our channel. Promotion is tough, and we're still figuring out the best way to go about it.

I wont elaborate on the meanings of the dialogue. It's worth discovering. At least when the moment happened on set, everybody started sweating uncontrollably.
Thanks for the Brutal Review, Symphonious7 We appreciate your criticism at Guerrilla Day Project
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Ahhhhh.... so I see... yeah with no context I was like "what are these guys talking about?" lol
 
hjz said:
I could use brutal feedback.
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I don't even know where to begin. This is a hard video to "brutally" critique... For one, your ages. How am I supposed to review this like I would an adult's videos when you are all so young and can't be judged by the same standards? Plus I don't know your intentions, I look at most of these channels like they want to "make it on youtube" and make money so I give reviews coming from the angle of whether or not this would help them achieve this goal or not. You guys just look like kids having fun and being silly. With that said, I rather enjoyed this video.

Ok the prairie dog prairie song may have gone on too long, and it's hard to understand the lyrics which I'm sure are comical like the rest of the video. This may get people to turn off the video before it's even begun. There is an "amateur" quality to this video, but at the same time some surprisingly well done editing at the same time. I love the voice you gave the asian "british" kid lol. Why he's both asian AND british? We will never know...

Look I can't pick this apart and scrutinize every last detail of it, your jokes are what you'd expect from kids your age, they are random, not always sensical, and sometimes could use polishing, but whaddya expect? What you have going for you is you look like you had a blast making the video, you have the "cute" factor going for you, and you actually do have some real skill in editing and splicing up your videos. Some of the jokes and the voices you use are down right funny.

The video has it's moments that are just kind of there, they don't really impact they don't really leave you upset you watched the video, but it has it's moments that are either cute, or so random they made me giggle. You have a charm about your ideas and videos, and some of it works and some of it doesn't, but I doubt anyone's gonna rip you to shreds for the parts that don't work because come on, you're just kids having fun.

So all in all I'd say great job, keep doing your thing, and I look forward to seeing more from you.
 
Stef said:
Review meh.
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Alright buddy, I've watched you come along way, the reviews you do now are much better than the reviews you did when you started, you've learned to not repeat yourself, you've learned to say more about the negative aspects along with the positive. I think it's time you take it to the next level.

Your videos have gotten to the point that you are doing what you do well, you are speaking at a good pace, your confidence is up, you have found yourself so to speak. But your tone stays the same throughout, and you almost sound like you don't care about what you're saying. It has a tone that kind of says "let's just get through this review, whatever" This is probably you still getting used to being on cam and it just takes time, but since you've solidified yourself at a new level I think it's fair for me to push you a little further. I think it's also time to start incorporating new methods of entertaining your audience, pop ups on the screen, cut aways to other footage, trying your hand a little humor. At this point you are doing well, but you have managed to come up to the level of "well done" but not "highly entertaining".

Think of humorous ways to make your points if you can, if not humor then use text and royalty free music interludes to say certain things, do scenes where you jumpcut from one side of the room to the other and make it look like you're having a conversation with yourself. Study some of the popular vlog channels and see what they are doing, it's time to spice it up and give your audience more. I'll give this one a rating.

I give it a 6/10
 
I agree completely with everything. I'm still getting used to editing so I'm not sure if I can do anything amazing like someone like Vanessa :). But, I think that just comes up putting more work into my videos, and I also feel like my lighting/camera is sort of keeping me from going to the next level. I try to make so what I'm saying is interesting but I can understand that as an actual video that you're watching it can be a bit boring. I think I can definitly work on having a more exciting tone when speaking, but yeah that comes from being a bit self concious on camera. I think a 6/10 is very fair and hopefully I can get you to give me a 9/10 one of these days ;).
 
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