Hi Jared, my name's Jonathan.
Glad to see someone actually promoting themselves in the Promotional section. Most people don't seem to notice that when they join here. So props to you there.
I took a look at most of your videos, and I have to say they're definitely on the rough side. Much less filmmaking, and more like documented Larping. But I think your most obvious missing piece at the moment is an actual story to tell.
You seem to still be at that point where you just want to see you and your friends shoot stuff and do cool things on camera, rather than wanting to tell a dramatic or thrilling story that you wrote or scripted. It's actually almost exactly the same thing as what I was doing nearly 6-8 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDxDqUwxZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml-PtrOpSVk
And that's okay. It's always fun to do that with friends even if not many other people may enjoy watching it as well. But if you want to advance, improve, and go anywhere with filmmaking, then you have to start coming up with concepts, probably story-boarding them, and presenting them in a stylistic fashion.
Most of your videos right now are pretty short, most of them are kind of hard to tell apart due to the similiar subject matter and visuals, and only one of them I found seriously funny: "Backyard Fight."
My best advice for your next major video: come up with a story to tell in 5-10 minutes, give it a beginning, a middle, and an end, see if you can do it without using any guns or light sabors, and above all, think carefully about each of your shots and why that moment should be shot that way.
Best of luck to ya.
