Reviews for This Side Up: Ep.1

[Jiunon]

Great, honest effort.

As with most 'buddies flash' it did rely heavily on the same trite themes however for most these never grow tiresome. What am I saying? Honestly it was rather funny.

The problem? Sound. The sound was not up to par with the rest of the work. At some points you would have to turn up the volume to hear the voices... only to have to turn it down when a sound effect blared in the speaker. Suggestion: Watch your levels on programs like goldwire and be sure that they don't ping. As for the mic issue when recording maintain a constant distance and don't eat the microphone. You are getting alot of sputtering when people emote. Wrap the mics in toilet paper if you can't afford a good boom mic ATM.

Again great effort and the longevity of the humor in a 12 minute flash was surprising.

Keep up the fantastic work, i look forward to your next effort.

[Uptown-SlimJim]

Work harder

The only real problem I had was with your voice work. Make sure your mics don't pick up any feedback and watch your speaking volume too. I'd recommend getting soundforge or some kind of sound program to keep a consistency.

I was about to call this a Tomorrow's nobodies knock-off but now that I thought about it, I can see you guys are eager to start something and you already know about the faults of this movie. Besides, we Canadian 'series-makers' have to stick together. Good luck guys.

ArseNick responds:

Thanks, yea we're gonna be doin' some serious work on the whole, sound thing for the next episode. And well, to be honest I absolutely love Tomorrow's Nobodies and there are a bunch of similarities I admit. They were actually somewhat of an inspiration for us when we were working on this. We all gotta start somewhere, sadly, as you can see from other ignorant reviews, some people don't understand that. Usually people who actually have submitted stuff are the ones who know what they're talking about. Thanks for the review, I like it when people get me.

[draonzblood]

pretty good

i liked this alot. you have a few things like the sound you can work on but overall very nicely done

[chaddyg]

great

hey man its chad thats hilarious. its 10 times as funny when you know all these guys haha. has riley even seen this?? you should get me in some of these episodes thatd be awesome. just the sound isnt the greatest i have to crank my speakers and the when theres crashing or something i have to turn it down and im constantly doing that so.. but otherwise thats amazing

[SLUGFly]

good... almost great

good drawings, animation and general plot line... good interaction between the characters. However 2 of the characters drove me nuts. 1- the retarded guy was just ignorant and well... retarded... in the "i think i'm 1337" way not the mental pudding way. The christian guy was also stupid. That's not anything like a christian... at all... I'm an avid anti-christian and they're quite easy to poke fun of. Both these characters have the same problem (shared by a great many scenes in the film) the jokes were too spoon-fed... to obvious.

It was a good job but I hope that the same animation and voice acting could be combined with better satire and sound quality.