We have created a Draft 3 from the feedback we have received from our visitors from Specsavers, Mr Gregson and improvements we have decided as a group.

What’s changed since our Draft 2?

• We thoroughly went through the lip-syncing in order to correct the imperfections where the time was slightly off.
• Shortening clips and removing unnecessary and repetitive clips such as the model wrapping his hands before the fight as it was quite tedious to watch and we replaced this worth including montage shots.
• We spent time making sure the clips were edited to the beat at the right times.
• Used positioning and scale to zoom in shots to fit the space and cropped out any unwanted objects in the background.
• Experimented with different colours and filters e.g. used black and white effect for narrative clips until to extenuate his feelings of sorrow and suffering from his heartbreak.
• Removed the existing transition as they didn’t quite fit the style of video and came across comedic.

We chose to seek feedback from other media students and asked them to leave their comments on our draft 3 as we considered that it’s important that as a media producer we are seeking feedback and trying to get impartial audience comments in order for us to make improvements that we may had not seen ourselves. Below is the feedback we received:

Overall, we were happy with the feedback we received as it allowed us to consider new ideas from people with different opinions and also reminded us of the positives of our music video.

Targets for improvement we gathered from our peers include: 

• Start with a closer angle as when the artist starts to sing it will create a more personal connection with the audience.
• Add more colour editing and change the lighting at certain points of the performance clips to make it less bright and overexposed because it would make them pop and stand out.
• Increase the saturation throughout the video within the narrative when he is starting to feel more uplifted instead of abruptly going straight back into colour.
• Possibly add some more filters on the performance to make it more engaging and alluring.
• Add a few more shots to the end of the music video so that the ending isn’t as abrupt.
• Replace the shots which are quite shaky or attempt to add a stabilizing effect onto them.
• A few areas where the lip syncing is out and doesn’t match up.
• One clip within the narrative which is not in black and white nearer the start (0:32)