I really liked this film. While it is light on animation, I think you make up for it with really good narration and choice in music to create a great atmosphere that helps the viewer connect with this guy and his world despite the shortness of the film. Which is more than you can say for a lot of films.

Great work, definitely worth the 5 billion times the uploading got messed up.

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As a night owl myself, I really like the idea behind this film.

I mentioned it on YT already, but I feel the sound balance is a bit off, as the music seemed a bit loud at times, and the mic quality wasn't the best.  Also, I feel that smooth jazz may have benefited the atmosphere more than the piece of music you chose (although this may just be my personal opinion).  Also, instead of still images, I think a few slow dolly shots or zooms would have greatly improved the film.  Still, I really like this film, I love the atmosphere of it, and the night-time lighting was wonderfully executed.

Oh yes, and the scene in the bar reminds me a lot of the painting "Nighthawks".  Was this intentional?

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Hi guys, good to hear you all enjoyed it I couldn't agree more about the audio quality, it was actually recorded with a studio level Blue microphone but it was rushed recording and thus doesn't have the quality I was hoping for. I am planning on fixing the levels and re-releasing at some point but I hope the film was still just as enjoyable to watch as it was for me to make

Really like the atmosphere you created with the lighting, narration, and music. The one thing I didn't like was at the end

Maybe this is just me always thinking it sounds weird when people say the contest theme out loud, but this usage sounds kinda unnatural to me. Nice work overall, though!

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Been catching up on entries today so I only just saw this now.
  Really enjoyed this, you've been nailing your atmosphere in recent films, you seem to be a really good fit for the nice relaxing slow pace of things like this and Drifter. The music was nice, however my one complaint really is that the sound mixing was a bit off, and times things were hard to hear, the audio quality was also sometimes a bit jarring.
  Pretty sure I already said this with Drifter but your cinematography is fantastic, the last shot was so amazing I actually let out an audible gasp. The only thing that lets it down is the way it's rendered, the dark lighting lends to some unfortunate colour bleeding with [I'm guessing] MP4 files, I think I found a way around it though so I may be able to get back to you on how to fix that. It's just unfortunate that such great shots and beautiful lighting end up in a file with bled colours.
  Really enjoyed it, you'll have to teach me some of your lighting tricks.

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