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Stella is a romantic comedy about a guy stuck in the friend zone. But, no worries, because he finally gets the girl and it’s beautiful. First of all, I have to say that it is really difficult to review my own movie because I know the reasons behind the stuff I don’t like and why some of it had to be done.
This movie, first and foremost, is adorable. I do love the story line, and, if I don’t say so myself, I thought that the casting was great. The chemistry between Stella and Matt was wonderful, and the actor playing Brad was hilarious. I laughed over and over at his lines, no matter how many times that I watched them. I also thought the hospital scene was great – it was good to have that break in dialogue with the nurse character. I think the office scene could have been trimmed a bit more, but I know that we had shaved off 40 seconds and we had to keep a lot of stuff to keep continuity. The audio obviously needed more work, but we came pretty close to relatively normal dialogue. I’m sure that the only reason I could clearly hear the audio in the coffee shop is because I know all of the lines. I think that there were a lot of nice angles that made the film move quicker and I loved the transition from the fight to the music to getting hit by the car. The shot of Stella’s name on the phone needed to have something done to it because it was too abrupt.
I wanted to mess with the filters on both the dream sequence and the nightmare, as well as the off sync sound in “Stella” because I could see it and it bothered me to death. I don’t like the transition of music from the car accident to the dream to the nightmare. I think the car accident could’ve been ambient sound with sound effects and the idea we had about Stella’s voice saying “Fader?” The dream music, although the kiss music was nice, you could tell it was mid-song and I didn’t like how it was just this weird overdone build to the kiss. Then, even though the music for the nightmare was hilarious at the end, it was too much in the beginning and I don’t know how I would’ve fixed that myself. The ADR in the final scene with “screw friendship” also needed to be reworked.
I thought that this piece had strong acting, the cinematography was great – I wish we could’ve used the dolly once more, my biggest problem was the sound, which I know was partially my fault, partially the locations, and partially it being 16 straight hours of editing and refusal to hear out other options. I do love this story.
Oh, and of course, the freeze-frame 80′s ending is magical and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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