Talk:Mapper Tournament 3/@comment-26865094-20170124190502/@comment-25923362-20170125081511

In my opinion, Fedex is being too harsh. It's true that we (the judges) shouldn't count when you started as a factor, but a 2.5/10 rating is nah. I would give it a 5.5 or 6/10.

I like that you get right into the action, that wasn't a bad thing to me. The music is fine, and there are some good moments with the music syncing with the action. I like the map (probably because it looks similar to mine lol), but I think there's too much of the Pacific Ocean. People want to focus on the middle of the screen, and the center of your map is somewhere in the ocean near the West Coast. Some of the flags are also stretched (never stretch flags! crop them so that they fit into the box).

The biggest flaw storywise with your video is that everything happens waaaay too fast. All of this stuff happens in one year? I felt overwhelmed during watching it because so much stuff was happening at this insanely quick rate. I understand that you might have wanted to show some sort of domino effect, but the pacing is not suitable at all. There was zero time for the viewer to rest and think about what happened. Most of the characters didn't have time to even react/comment on what happened, which means a ton of character-building potential has been thrown away (making characters react to dangerous situations and choices is a great way to show personality and morals). I felt like this episode's content could have been more thoroughly explored and expanded in the length of two, or even three episodes. So far there's no real character development, but it's just the first episode, so I'll let this one pass. Also, for realism, I'll give this one a pass too, since these kind of series aren't exactly about realism, and in my series I also sacrifice some realism to create characters and a story from scratch, so yeah.

Don't get discouraged by any of this. You did a good job with the visuals and music, and you have some interesting ideas that can be explored and used to create something unique. Keep it up C: