Draft 4 feedback and targets

After uploading our fourth draft of the music video we invited some fellow media students to watch our most recent draft and they kindly agreed to be filmed. We positioned them with the video and asked them to comment on they liked and what they thought could be improved throughout, we also prompted them with questions along the way. You can view the feedback below.

What went well:

• There is wide variety of shots and a fast edit in the opening skit.
• The door slam sound effect is powerful.
• The number of close-ups on instruments is important for the genre.
• The pace fits the genre of music.
• The mise-en-scene is effective and reflective.
• The animations are dazzling and ‘cool’ drawing positive attention from the audience.
• The actors are full of energy in the performance and suit the star image.
• The narrative is seen to come to an expected ending and the music and narrative wind down nicely in time with the fade reducing the pace.

Targets:

• It was found they did not have enough time to read the blue text at the beginning.
• They also found that they didn’t have enough time to read the news reel text, however it was decided that this wasn’t crucial to the contextual understanding of the text.
• If we have enough time, it would be interesting to perhaps get one or two more animations into the middle of the song where they lack in comparison to the start and end.
• Some of the transitions between shots could be more interesting.