rick.lang wrote:Apologies if my post to you was too cryptic. Your post of your beautiful footage followed PabloFernandez' post of a video that appeared to rely on a gun for drammatic effect. I much preferred your video and felt the last shot of Katrina beginning at 29" was lovely drama.
Don't mean to offend Pablo of course, just would rather see Katrina looking into the camera in an understated way that suggests her complex thoughts than the barrel of a gun that just makes me tense.
But, her name is Karolina.
"The Bag" is a proper narrative short film with a script, actors, crew, etc; "Woman in white dress" is a camera test. I was getting drama from the script and performances in "The Bag." There was no performance in "Woman"...it was just a series of images. No plot. No drama. There also was no female character in "The Bag." I just don't see how the two videos compare.
Also, "The Bag" looks marvelous. If that kind of movie isn't your cup of tea, that's fine, but a camera test does not compete with a proper motion picture in terms of drama. Karolina has nice eyes, I agree, but, she's just looking into the lens. She's pretty, but I don't know or care about her. Give me a documentary about her and maybe I'll gain some insight into her life story and start to care a little bit, but green-eyed Afghan girl on the cover of National Geographic, she ain't.