EVALUATION Q4: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

 

QUESTION FOUR.

Overall, the reception from our music video is positive from people of all ages. When we were editing our videos on Final Cut Pro in the mac suite, a lot of people came to our desk to watch our video and give feedback, even when it wasn't completed yet! Here is an accumulation of all the different people that gave us feedback in class:

TONY'S FEEDBACK

As you can see Tony's thoughts on our work were mostly positive, but we definitely took his constructive criticism into consideration. Tony did notice that there was a part in our video where the dancers lighting wasn't up to par and it just looked really unprofessional with the rest of the video (in my opinion) along with the fact that  the 41 bus was showing which is something you would never find in a music video. We corrected that straight away so ensure our video was the best it could be. I have learned that it is important to always wath your surroundings whilst filming and to also ensure that lighting is okay, because without lighting you wouldn't be able to see what is on the screen! Tony was also worried about safety precautions, but we reassured him that it was completely safe and that there was nothing to worry about. I appreciate and agree with the constructic criticism that Tony had given us, honesty is the best policy. Here is another viewpoint from our peers at college:

PEER FEEDBACK

The feedback from my peers was overall positive. I think that they were more reluctant or afraid to give contructive criticism like the teachers are because obviously us as teens aren't as straight forward and upfront as teachers are when it comes to criticize each others work. However, I do appreciate what they did notice, such as the artists costume and make up which we took special care to ensure that the mise en scene was pleasing for the audience. Lashmi (one of my peers) also noticed the behind-the-scenes work we did with the water falling on the rock and us reversing it, so we were quite appreciative at that.

When we were satisfied with our video and made all the changes suggested we decided to put our video on vimeo, which is a website designed so users can upload various videos they have created. Here is a link to our video on Vimeo, http://vimeo.com/32961275. Here is also some screen shots of audience feedback that I got from college peers about my video:

From this screen shot it's easy to see that the feedback from our peers is mainly positive. However, taking into consideration that two people have commented on the dancing and the fact that the artist could have been within the performance, it is definitely something that we could have improve don. When we first came up with the dance idea, we had no idea that we would have to take so many shots and cut in so many times. Our shots were mostly LS and MS but in all honesty we should have taken CU's and ECU's of the dancers faces to add interest to the music video and make it more dynamic and live. We did try to shoot as many clips as we could and I do thing we did a pretty good job considering the limited amount of time we had due to complications with the camera and such, but obviously there is always room for improvement. As regards to the artist dancing in the performance, we felt that it was better for her image and our genre of dubstep that she shouldn't dance in the video as it would give off a hip hop or pop vibe which is not what we had planned. Nevertheless, looking back in retrospect it would have added a nice touch to the music video.

THE CINEMA TRIP

Oh yes! Our lovely teachers gave us a chance to view our amazing videos in the cinema! It was hosted at Screen On The Green which is in Islington. It is a lovely venue with plush pillows, it was truly a lovely experience. I also thought this was a great opportunity to gt some valuable audience feedback for my evaluation (thinking ahead!!). I have made a very short documentary on our trip to the cinema on Windows Live Movie Maker below, enjoy :) 

Until then!

Stephanie :)