To understand where we can improve our video, we have received feedback from our teacher.
What do we need to improve?
- We need to focus more on the narrative and use special effects to emphasise the importance of our stars’ redemption.
- We have a slight continuity error in the beginning. We have used a jump cut of the actor that does not align with the previous clip.
- During the narrative montage, we do not allow enough time for the audience to digest the meanings of the clips, so we should play around with the segment and make it longer.
- As our actor opens the door before the transition, we cut back to our performance. It diminishes the momentum and we should think about swapping around some clips. Not only this, during the transition, we should include some colour correction and special effects to make our star pop. During the transition, we should also dip to white to emphasise the importance of our actor making this step.
- We should attempt to mute the colours before the transition to highlight the boring and unfulfilling life our character had before undertaking the transition to his true self.
- During one of the clips, cars can be seen on the right-hand side. This is distracting, and we should reframe it so that our attention is directly on our performer.
- We should change some of the clips of our star walking on the path – it becomes repetitive.
- We should reorder the shot when the performer throws the book, as the performance in between is meaningless.
Focus Forward
After receiving feedback from our teacher, we can now focus on different aspects of our music video that need working. In particular, we need to focus on our narrative – it took us a while to figure out our performance projector effect, but now that is sorted, we can put all of our efforts into improving the narrative. We will do this by ensuring the sequencing is correct and improving the colour in several of the clips to emphasise meaning. This feedback was very helpful and will allow us to make some needed improvements to our video to make it the best quality before final submission.