Kevin's Watch

an educational video on the use of editing and scoring film



Island of Lost Souls

Good work, a pity the initial video quality is not too high. Personally, wasn't really scared by either of the variants, but that's likely me, not the video - it's generally pretty hard to scare me with a movie.

I'm sorry but honestly your re edit is terrible

Holarchy wrote:I'm sorry but honestly your re edit is terrible

those were early stages, the re edit is amatuer, but the score is amazing. I have progressed a great deal in both, and screen tests have evoked powerful reactions. Watching this without an atmospheric and provocative score is almost a chore now. The tinting, dramatic pans (many very advanced cinematography techniques were employed in the film) and overlays I have been using can be hit and miss, but overall this will please underground film types, cult film followers, and all patrons of theater.
I was only into the very beginning of the film.
My own reactions to the film are impossible to ignore, try as I might to remain unbiased! I am delving much deeper into these characters as I watch and re-watch every frame.
Much of what I am attempting is very challenging even to an experienced editor. The film uses dissolves very liberally and you need split frame timing to add the effects and time tinting transitions. I do not have the resources to apply a dissolving gradient to those transitions, and I'm self taught anyway.
But the ideas I am providing in terms of editorial content are original and lavish much needed attention on this neglected film, which is by far the most perfect screen adaptation I have encountered in the whole of cinema.
Rest assured, if you get a chance to see this before I get a "cease and desist" letter (if it even gets that far) I will be very pleased to see if your opinion has changed.
Thank you for the input.

Montgomery becomes increasingly conflicted as Moreua's machinations deepen. Seeing Lota despondently trying to enter the House of Pain, the deeply troubled doctor (who you will remember was fleeing London as an outcast abortion provider) takes his first stand, promising Lota "No more House of Pain." This is surely a complex and compassionate feminist subtext with broad implications as well as a study in the deeper areas of human drama.

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