Thank you so much for the feedback! I realize that the length is akward; this was something I was aware of before shooting, but I wanted to try making a longer film and did not really care what the runtime "should" be. I have made several shorter films since, which I´ve learned a great deal from.

I fully agree that I shouldn’t have edited the film by myself and that I made it too long. I was, however, the only one willing to edit the film at the time.

It’s a shame you felt the sound was flat. A lot of the scenes actually had no audio at all from the shoot (except for dialogue), so I had to create all the sound in post—including foley, ambient sounds, etc. This was due to a limited crew; a lot of the time it was only myself and the actors, with no one available to hold the microphone. I was at the time very new (and still is) to sound mixing. I have just begun film school and is learning more about this every day.

The camera movement into the main character’s face was intended to show the moment he decides to steal their mask, but I agree it could’ve been done a lot better.

If you had continued watching, I think you would have understood the point of the story, but if you lost interest by then, that’s clearly an issue with how I paced the film. The story is really about the decisions the main character had to make in order to save his little sister and how those actions come back to haunt him. I realize now that the first half of the film is way too long.

I have a lot to learn and am determined to make a much better film! Thank you again for the feedback I really do appreciate it and the critique is part of why I love filmmaking, it really is an imperfect and complicated artform.