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[D-Day: Juno Beach]

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I don't think it told us much and the flash animation was very crude but at least it wasn't just a slide show of photo's , which I WOULD have bl@mmed.
There's a lot you could do to improve it, whether it gets through this time or not-
You could put in a map to show where Juno was. You could give some stats of troops involved. You could tell us more about the Canadian contribution to WW2 and maybe about when they joined in, who made the decision etc.
Maybe get someone you know who can do a good naration-
"In 194? Canadian prime Minister @@@@@ @@@@, declared war on the Axis forces and joined @@@@ in their plans to Invade Axis controlled Europe. It was agreed they would take part in the landing at @@@@ codenamed Juno..."

To make it really ace material, you could show pix of a WW2 graveyard afterward; a canadian WW2 war memorial in Canada, tell us something of the Canadian perspective looking back now.
You could put a Canadian flag in there somewhere, maybe in the animation.
Did the Canadians use any of their own vehicles or tanks? If so, pics of them might be cool.
Also, put in full credits for pictures at the end and maybe some links to other sites for more info, such as the appropriate Wiki pages.
If you want to score high for interactivity and have the chance to get a few people really interested, then put in plenty of facts, then make a little quiz at the end. See my Birth of an Island documentary, where I have done that.

Take your time. Make this a good one. Canadians should take pride in their part in the downfall of Hitler, us europeans should be grateful for their part in our deliverance.
2/5 with potential 3+ score with improvements.
Best Wishes,
Ice

chris7055 responds:

Thank you for this advice, I'll put these in mind when I finish this, and I will put these in mind for future flashes as well ^^.

[Blergh]

Not his lucky day, then!

... not anyone's lucky day!

Its sick. Its very sick. You're sick.

I laughed, so I must be sick!

aap responds:

I'm not sick. :(

[Ackbar : That's My Fulp]

OK

Its Ok. It makes its little joke, so I protect it but its not much really. the close up of Tom's mouth shows up how lame the mouth movement is. The credits have a bit clipped off at the beginning of the words.

["Oxygen Ad"]

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It is quite interesting stuff, I do like lego and it was mildly funny. The sound was very poor at first but got much better.

However, it wasn't really flash animation, in fact it was barely what you could call animation at all, mor eof a slideshow. As such its more youtube. It could do with submtitles and a few pics of oxygen atoms, molecules and its place in the P table.

Angry-Potato-Prod responds:

I know it's not animated - - it was a project for school and I didn't have time.

Also, I didn't know ANYTHING about making videos back when I made this - - so it's VERY basic.

[The Exodus Machine]

Not too bad

+OK animation
+soso music
+OK art

-I didn't understand it
-It wasn't a song
-I couldn't read the faint grey writing on black at the end

[Heart of Darkness -unp]

Good

+ reasonable art- I liked the rows of black faces and the boat was OK
+ quite good animation- not much of it, nothing exciting but OK.
+ Ok lip sync- not great but it was there.
+ Naration all clearly spoken and easy to hear. BUT Not too much life in the naration- sounded just rather dull reading from a book. One section towards the end has an overlap of speech that needs sorting. Some background sounds BUT Could do with more with some a bit louder sounds to add drama. Possibly some theme music going faintly too, coming up a bit in volume to add to the action, like a cinema movie.
+decent length, sort of told a story- but...

- story rather weird. Didn't make much sense to me. I think we would have to know more about the characters and the circumstances to understand much about why people did and said what they did.

-Needed more info and stuff in the movie. It may have been OK for your presentation but I think it needed adapting for NG. It needs to have what you put in the notes put into the movie with some explanation of who/where/why before it starts
-Then a better, more complete finish with full credits, such as sound etc and maybe a More Info button and links to the author and stuff .

Take no notice of 1/10 reviews etc. The presentation of it was rather uninspiring and I can therefore understand how some of the crowd out there might find it boring but its good enough and shows the ability to do yet better. I know what it takes to put together all the sound, art, animation and naration- most of what is here isnt that good but it adds up to a proper story with everything in it, so you get 6/10.
Polished up along the lines I described, it could do a lot better.
Best Wishes,
Ice

[A very DOCKY Pico Day]

Ok

I tried twice but I still couldn't hear all of it. I haven't seen any DD for many months and I thought you guys were long gone. I think I prefered the anchor to that thing which looks like a wooden pallet on the faces.
Mildly funny as far as I could make out the words.
Best Wishes to the DD from the DS,
Ice

IZSBHR responds:

The DD is putting together a huuuuge collab, which will be out in mid-May. We won't die (:

[~BB~ We love you Orange]

Ok but limited

the loopy thing went on too long. A lot of people would have X'd before the final message.

Excellant music, seemed appropriate atmosphere for the message.

Always put full credits in the movie.

Like so many crews, you guys have the basic ability, but don't use it much- Learn to have patience.

Best Wishes to the ~BB from the DS
Ice

[Ariel's High Sorcery 1of3]

good

very good art and animation
Very good sound/ voice acting

story OK as far as it goes, but too short a piece. To those of you who know something about this series or whatever it may seem OK, but to the rest of the world its just a snippet of story not a decent episode length to get into.

It needs some kind of intro to explain who/what.

Also, you need to put a hyperlink to part 2 at the end, prefereably with a sentence about what will happen, not just something in your notes.

Good work please sort it out.
Ice

touched responds:

Well, I can do that *now*, but of course while it was freshly uploaded I had no way of linking to something else that hadn't been uploaded yet. Now they're both out of judgement and I have the URLs, I can add them, but I'll probably wait until tomorrow when I can upload the 3rd bit. Can only upload 2 files per day.