Nice... A Few Notes
Well done, kinda' funny little Flash. Some good points and some bad points :
Graphics : Well rounded. Shading and coloring looks good. Your backgrounds and textures could use some (a lot) more detail. For instance, the black character has a background that's gray with a whole bunch of black triangles. What the? I think you can do better than that :-P.
And when the Chinese rapper starts to freestyle, he and the black guy are standing at the table with the boom-box on it. That is just one of several shots that I saw that I thought could've been detailed a little better. Just from a visual point of view, I would love to see a little more "going on".
- YOU USED WAYYY TOO MANY CLOSE-UPS :-P. If it was me, I would've picked half as many (or fewer) times to cut to super-close-ups like you did about 20 times. The ultra-zoom doesn't really serve a design or other aesthetic purpose. Instead, you should vary your angles and your 'shots' a little more. That super-close shot is kind of a cheap way not to have to draw anything more complicated than eyes and a nose.
Along the same lines, from a graphical and 'set design (?)' standpoint, you used the same shots more than a couple of times. The globe for sure, and probably a few others. Again, in my opinion (sorry if I'm a dumbass) I'd just switch all that up a little more. There are plenty of different ways you could've incorporated other 'shots' into this movie, if you hadn't thought about it.
So the same goes to you as to a lot of newer artists out there, DETAILS. The little shit is what makes all the difference.
Style : This is where you suffered a little for me. In this case, I'm incorporating the writing and acting and plot in the Style category.
The concept is clever and original : a Chinese rapper trying to make it in an English market. I got that.
What I thought (MY OPINION, I'm not trying to say I'm right or my opinion is important)... I thought the way it all went down was a little weak.
First of all, what does the whole global-warming thing have to do with... anything? I saw the sign-thing at the beginning ("a worldwide threat"), and I heard one character say the Chinese rapper doesn't rap about global warming. But that doesn't really follow any other part of the short story here. In other words, it's not funny, and it doesn't matter otherwise, so you could take it out altogether.
The characters were fine, the American white (?), American black, French (???), and Chinese. I guess that's just it, there was another random-ass character in there who was speaking another language. I don't get that either; so I guess what I mean is, if it doesn't serve at least a humorous purpose it doesn't need to be there.
The dialogue was the weakest part. First of all, this is International Superstar Records. If it is INTERNATIONAL I wouldn't think hiring a Chinese rapper would be that big of a surprise or an issue (even if he didn't speak English), but we'll forget about that.
The subtitles were choppy and messy. Some of them stayed on screen for a while, and some were only on screen for a few frames. I know he was rapping fast, but you could've used smaller font or something.
One more 'style' note : and this is REALLY being anal. But the Chinese character, at the end of his (painfully obviously fake Chinese) rap, laughs. Now I KNOW that's just dumb of me to point out, but hey, there it is. I just though I'd let you know it IS obvious (if you didn't already know).
Sound : One of the last reviewers said "work on the sound" and I don't really know what that means. Good little beat (even had the Chinese harp-thing in there). The mic was REALLY good, the audio all worked really well, mixed right and everything.
Interactivity : Preloader.
Humor : Kind of funny. The idea is a really good one. The only thing that didn't work for me was... the rap. It was just... bad. I know it probably seemed funny, and maybe I'm a retard; but I thought it was just kind of... bad. So at the end he says, "You got the job," but... WHY?
My Grade : C+