evaluation question 3

what have you learnt from your Audience feedback?


Professional audience feedback

How i got these feedback sheets is that i got some qualified media students or teachers to watch my music video and for them to tell me what the strengths and weaknesses of my music video were, and how i could improve on it. Why i think this was a good idea to incoporate this into my work was because it think that it has helped me see my music video from another persons prespective.

1. Miss Wickson

what was said :

Strengths

• Sound is great
• song is Amazing
• good pacing edited well
• different shots e.g close up's/wide shot's and interesting shot's
• song fits images

What needs to be improved

• Are you thinking of showing the girl with the black background again? it may be good to incoporate it again as it seems a little out of place at the minute.

I agree with what miss Wickson said i think that i should include more shots of the singer as it seems abit random just having one shot of the singer and the rest the video. I have taken this on board and have included more shots of her singing. I think this added a good variety to the video and would make it less boring and add more depth to the video then it just being clips from the acting.  

2. Miss cole
 

What was said :

Strengths

• like the close up of hands when lyrics say it
• same with the 'sea' and it was clouded vision
• thought the pace of editing was good + smooth
• well written + sung song

what needs to be improved

• is the solo singer going to re-appear?
• it seems out of place at the minute

I also agree with what miss cole said as i think it needed to be more flowing to make the song seem more related to artist. I have taken this on board aswell.
As you can see i have screenshotted that i have taken what miss cole said and i have improved my film by adding more scenes of my artist singing in my music video
Overall we thought that that this did improve our video as it made the link between the artist and the song more clear than it was before, this has then meant that it is more easier to understand than when we didnt have the clips of her in.

3. Nikki Williams

what was said:

Strengths

• very nice framing in shots
• good variety
• music fits in nicely
• very clear

What needs to be improved

• add in titles
• car scene is a little choppy in the editing (the cuts stand out too much)

I agree with what nikki said about adding the titles in , so i am going to add titles in at the end of the video so we are almost advertising the artists name more. however i dont agree with what he said about the car scene being choppy as it had to be because i think by having more quicker shots it means that it is more interesting for the audience to watch, although i have broken up the car scene by adding different shots inbetween i thought that this worked more successful than before.

As you can see i have added in some titles at the end of the video to make it look more professional looking when you watch it. I think that this has worked quite successfully but we havent taken up much of the song with the title though it appears for a certain amount of time which we thought went well.

4. John hawe
 

What was said

Strengths

• cinematography
• acting
• colour in car works well (blues) - fits the music
• edit is strong
• story is easy to follow

What needs to be improved

• Include a few more shots of singer acts as a backbone to narrative as if its her story
• some shots last a little too long (shot of ocean at 57 secs.

I agree again by the fact there needed to be more shots of the singer, However i dont agree with what he noted about the ocean scene being too long because i think that the scene was just the right length as it fitted in with the lyrics and wouldnt have looked good if it was any shorter. It also breaks away from the video abit so the audience dont get too bored.

As you can see in these shots i made the ocean scene alot slower on the Corel editing studio, i think that this was nesseccary as they looked a little out of place to begin with but now i have slowed it down it fits in more with the beat of the music video which has made it more easier to watch the video.  

My conclusion

Overall i think that the feedback in which i have recieved was helpful, because i think that by having the professional feedback it has helped me gain more marks and has helped me understand what people are expecting of my music video to be and what standard it should be within the genre i am trying to portray.
Also by having professional feedback it has meant that i can gain more knowledge from other people who know what they are talking about within media and use the terminology in which i understand. I also think that by having this feedback from people who have made media videos before will help my video become of a more professional standard overall and will help me gain more marks and make the video look more visually better. I also think that by having this feedback it has helped me understand what is needed to make a successful music video and how other people with a good knowledge of media think a good music video looks like.