Feedback Of Final Cut

On Tuesday 13th March, the whole of the Media students in year 13 at our school got together to view each others music videos and gain feedback. This was a good thing to do for all of the different groups as feedback is essential in seeing whether people like/dislike your video and also to see any suggestions that could be acted upon to possibly improve or take out of the video. The left hand picture shows the layout of how the video was viewed. The teacher connected a laptop to a projector, and played the video through the laptop so that it was shown through the projector.

When all took a piece of paper and wrote down our thoughts on the videos that we were watching. In total, we have 17 bits of feedback that will be analysed and thought about in order to change the video to make it as good as it can be. The right hand picture shows both of the classes watching the videos and writing down their individual pieces of feedback.

Action Plan

This is our action plan that we came up with after we were given the feedback. The plan briefly explains what we are going to do in order to improve our video. The feedback that we have was given to us by our teacher and other students that all sat and watched the video. The action plan is something that we as a group have come up with by taking into consideration what people thought and also what we did and din not like when we put the footage on the big screen.

                                                                          The Action Plan Includes:

• Removing the over-cranked sections of the video (it has no effect in the rough cut)
• Get Glenn to actually sing the song so the lip sync is in time
• Glenn 'looks bored' so try and get him to be a bit ore enthusiastic
• Show more life around London e.g. bankers, lower and upper class people
• Clothing was a bit to dark and dull
• Include London as a location more in the video, there is too much singing
• Different locations e.g. markets, banks, outside train stations
• Try and define life

With all of the information that we need to try and improve our video, we now need to consult with Glenn and try and arrange a few dates over the coming weeks where he is available to help us film. I have already messaged Glenn and what with it coming up to half term, Glenn has a lot of work committments that cannot be helped. Over the halfterm, the group will go up to London without Glenn and try and do some filming of different locations were shots do not necessarily involve him.

Feedback Of Rough Cut

Above is a picture of all of the feedback that we recieved in regards to the rough cut of the video that we have produced. Some of the comments was positive and some negative, and it is essential that we gain feedback all the way through our project so as we can keep or improve certian pieces of our work. Some of the feedback is generalised below;

-MIMING SLIGHTLY OUT OF SYNC

-MORE LINKS WITH VISUALS & LYRICS
    -SPED UP SHOTS NOT NECESSARY
  -SHOTS TOO LONG AT START OF VIDEO
  -MODEL LOOKED A BIT BORED/LACKED ENTHUSIASM
  -AT 2:26,2:34 AND 2:50, THE SHOT IS TOO DARK
  -BLANK SCREEN IN BETWEEN SOME SHOTS
  -SOME SHOTS WERE TOO REPETITIVE

Something that we also noticed as a group was the lack of colour in the video. It all seems a bit too gloomy so it would be an idea to get Glenn to wear something instead of a black coat.

The scrolling comments are the more negative comments towards our video. Some of them we already knew as a group, such as the darker shots and where the miming is slightly out of place. There was some positive feedback as well that we have taken on board. This feedback included:

• Good varied shots;
• Most cuts are consistent with the beat;
• Some liked the intro of the video;
• Good setting;
• Good camera work with pans and zooms;
• Mise-en-scene was also noted as being good with the guitar;
• The ending had the biggest impact when it fades out after being under-cranked.