Peer assessment is helpful to gain new ideas and critiques, it means a fresh set of eyes can look at the video with no bias or preconcieved ideas. The feedback will be raw and honest to improve videos as much as possible. During this task, two people assessed and marked our music video in relation to a specific criteria.
1ST PEER FEEDBACK:
“Great music video that fits the song well, not much is bad only lacking movement and instrumentals, with alright uses of stuff like transitions and filters only really needing a few more for both of them. The lip sync seems slightly off in some spots but is good for the majority of the video. I think a few more shots like the one of her on the car would’ve made the star image great. The songs are edited to the beat well and the acting is great. The shots are all steady and the locations and framing for the shots were well chosen. Overall good stuff.”
2ND PEER FEEDBACK:
OVERALL POSITIVE FEEDBACK:
- MES was effective and matched the song and genre well.
- Editing to the beat was successful and effective in montages.
- Acting told the narrative well and the trasnitions between performance and narrative were seamless.
- Good range of angles and shots, range of close to long shots was great.
- Tripod was used well to keep shots steady and editing keeps shots steady.
- Star image is communicated clearly.
OVERALL NEGATIVE FEEDBACK:
- Blue lighting was overused and somewhat distracting.
- Some parts of lip syncing seemed off.
- Editing to the beat seemed slightly off in one montage.
- Lacked variety of movement.
WHAT I WILL TAKE ONBOARD:
- I went through the video and checked all the montages to the second and all are in time, sometimes the video glitches meaning it can look out of time.
- I checked the lip syncing and one clip was off which has now been fixed, the rest were all perfectly in time.
- Variety of movement wasn’t prioritised when filming due to the fact our video focussed on being 70/80 of performance and little narrative to keep the video as professional and polished as possible. This meant movement was small. However, when the blue strobe lights come in the whole video gets bigger and bolder, including a new range of actions and massive movement in chorus sections.
- I happen to disagree with the blue lights comment, the blue flashing lights have been a key part most poeple like when watching our music video so I believe going off the majority is the best decision. I enjoy the slow introduction of the blue lights when the opacity is down and layred over other videos, it means when the blue light videos are opaque at the chorus it isn’t a shock and the video feels more cohesive this way.