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Will there be others in the scene? (like a crowd?)
Yes, I'll add the crowd when I get the main action done.
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the characters seem so far away from each other.
They kinda have to be far away from each other. There's a whole thing that goes on in the space between them. I don't know how it's going to work, but the spell effects go off in slow motion, from the witch to both Gloria and Googly Goo. In the next shots (spell effects are still advancing in slow motion), Tin Man and Grasshopper view the castle from a distance and run for it. TM runs up to SC tied to the stake (between Gloria and Googly Goo) and has a little chat. Then he walks up to Krewl and demands that he let SC go. Krewl orders that the bonfire be lit. TM tells Grasshopper to put the fire out, then he starts back toward SC. Grasshopper flies into the air with a bucket of water but loses control and drops it on TM's head as TM is headed back to SC. TM slowly rusts and becomes immovable just as he is near SC. He tells SC to do something. SC yells "blubbity blubbuty blub!" and Krewl laughs. Then a bunch of crows fly into the courtyard and cause havoc. FINALLY, Pon jumps into the path of the spell just before it hits Googly Goo. Pon and Gloria are both engulfed in the spell and look at each other.
Setting up the chors, I just couldn't work out how everyone could be any closer together.
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I expect this scene to be more frenetic, hurried - with trot whizzing past the camera, in front of witch? behind? - back & forth, back & forth
Don't know how that's going to work. It is already confusing and hard to tell what's going on. Making it more frenetic might make it even worse.
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I would at least expect to see some motion from trot - jumping into the shot, entering from different sides of the camera, up, down, left right
I'll try that and see what it looks like.
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Maybe a shot at the begiinning to establish the relative positioning?
I'll try that too.
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Maybe not such slow camera work - more abrupt cuts, quick & short?
Most of the cuts are less than two seconds long. Not sure I could make them much shorter without causing seizures in the audience...