Thoughts on short film trailer project

[XFRFred]

My son has put together a short film as a project, but he's also using it as part of the portfolio for uni (Film and Media studies).
He's spent a lot of time and energy on this, but would be grateful to gain a wider audience opinion and initial reaction(s).

Here's the link to the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgjbE3BNUAM&ab...

If you have a moment, please could you have a watch and maybe comment on your views on the YouTube page or here, where i can pass them over to him.
Thank you

TIA

Edited by XFRFred on Friday 28th February 10:48

[XFRFred]

Bump for the Friday lot, they may have a change to watch. Thanks

[Patrick Star]

Just had a look,

Doesn't look amateur at all,from a visual point of view.The only thing that gives it away is probably that some of the actors are young/inexperienced.
Plenty of promise being shown,well done from me. (Anonymous old git on the t'internet)

[vixen1700]

Patrick Star said:

Just had a look,

Doesn't look amateur at all,from a visual point of view.The only thing that gives it away is probably that some of the actors are young/inexperienced.
Plenty of promise being shown,well done from me. (Anonymous old git on the t'internet)

Yep, agree.

It looks very professional and pretty slick to be honest.

[XFRFred]

Thank you, i appreciate the comments and will pass them on.

[wildoliver]

It's bloody fantastic! The production quality is better than some commercially available stuff I'm seeing at the moment, granted the actors are a bit green, but that's all in vogue at the moment, it isn't to the detrimental of the film, they don't come across as wooden or not believable.

I saw some filter/light play which I'm always a sucker for, I'm really interested how on presumably a tiny budget they did the special effects like the bus smashing windows etc.

Overall he's living my dream life, I keep trying to get time to start shooting some short films but life is perpetually in the way, it would be my dream to go back to uni as a mature student and do this but I can't afford to not work sadly. Well done him!

[N111BJG]

It’s very good. I’m not in the industry but my son did this kind of thing for his degree in the similar subject, so I watched lots of his work & that of his fellow students. This is amongst the best I can recall seeing.

[Oakey]

It's good. Is Casey Jones your son's name? Like the character from Ninja Turtles?

Has he filmed this?

[mikees]

I’d pay to watch the full film

[XFRFred]

Thank you for the kind words, I've passed these on and he's so happy to hear this.

Yes, he's filmed this, wrote the script and edited it all.
He's redoing a lot of it again, as one of the kids have dropped out, which left him in a predicament. So, he adapted the story, characters so that he is now able to complete the film.