"Gone" by Karisa L. Clark

This is my latest cinematic orchestral piece "Gone". I would appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Click the YouTube link below:

"Gone" by Karisa L. Clark

I looked at your profile, saw th favourite composers and thought "ah, TSFH, that explains everything".

It sounds good, especially as background music for some kind of trailer or something.

The guys you're listening to are mostly sound producers, so it's good if you're going for soundtracks. I think.

Great quality music! Good production value! I'm very impressed, keep up the good work. 

Oh wow, that was magnificent! Excellent use of the cello...in fact, excellent use of everything! The quality of your vocals were spot on. It all had this trailer-esque amazon feeling like something you would see in Avatar. 

Good stuff!

Thank you! But I cannot take credit for having the magnificent vocals you hear in this piece. I used the VST HeavyOCity's Vocalise 2 for the vocals and the vocal phrases. I also use Symphonic Orchestra from Steinberg for the strings and the cello.  

Symphonic Orchestra is one those major CPU draining VSTs that I simply cannot download haha; the gigabits are enormous! But I'm happy to see someone put it to good use! 

The use of -> i - i <- as a phrase builder is tension-diminishing, as it settles from one place, only to grow from a decayed place. I teach that it's like trying to grow plants on a nuclear wasteland. It's very effective in very specific circumstances, but I think it's used too much here. 
The countermelody in the cello was effective in use, comparatively, but could feel like its own thing more. 
The section at 2:25 feels like a buildup to a big final section, rather than what it's actually used for which is the big section. This is why the Nolan Batman movie scores are, at times, ineffective.