Video Rough Cut Feedback

We received feedback from our peers in our media class for our rough cut of the music. 5 of our respondents said that our rough cut was at the level 2/3, 9 of our respondents said that it was at level 3 and the final 2 of our respondents said that the rough cut was at the level 3/4.From our 16 respondents comments we have found out what they liked about our video and what they thought we could do better. The things which our peers liked were the shots in the car, this suggests that he is ‘travelling through life’ which are lyrics in the song, another thing they liked about the car shots was the speed o’ meter which received a lot of comments as they thought that it was a good shot how we increased the speed so it looked like the car was increasing its speed rapidly. Our peers also liked our use of mise-en-scene for example we used various locations throughout the video, for example the house, beach, car, park etc, and what was particularly liked was the fridge shots and also how the costumes were linked throughout for example the checky shirts worn by the main singer and also when he was little. The children received a lot of comments how it was a good idea using them for when the main singer was younger as it made the story line more clear, especially how we edited it into black and white which shows that it was in the past, and the fact that we had a fuzzy screen at the start of the video which again lets the audience know that it is set in the past. The majority of the feedback said that they liked the introduction how we used close-ups of the three girls and main singer getting ready, the close ups which we used were short and edited quickly together. This fit in with the fast pace of the song. Our peers seemed to like the bed shots where he is moving around the bed in different positions to show that he is thinking and this had a lot of comments made about it. It was also said on numerous occasions that we had a good narrative story line as it was a bit different to a normal love story, and also said that we had a strong ending where the lyrics say ‘music made a man of me’ and it shows the younger main singer transform into a older version suggesting that music has made a man of him.The things which our peers said that we could improve on are as followed, performance don’t match the music and that the singing isn’t in sync with the music therefore we will improve this by making sure he is singing in time with the music, another thing about the performance shots that was mentioned was that they were to long, we will over come this problem by cutting the shots shorter and also vary the angles as people thought we had to many shots of him just standing in the same position therefore we will maybe get him to move around a bit more and not have him looking down so much as many people thought it was slightly inappropriate. Another thing involving the performance shots is that they weren’t in daylight, although its hard to film in the day with the nights getting dark earlier we will try and improve this so you can see him better. A thing which we defiantly need to fix is the guitar shots, as our main singer cant actually play the guitar so we had somebody play our peers found this obvious and suggested we changed it, also the guitar shots when he’s in the bed, sofa etc have been suggested to be taken out we will do this to change our mark. Other things which we will improve our things such as the random bus, the stop sign, stroking the computer screen, pace lost in the middle of the video, we will dispose of all of these shots as people didn’t think they were necessary, and we will also try to speed the pace back up to fit in with the music in the middle of the video.Things which we have also been told to improve on are the lighting between shots we are going to make sure we don’t skip from night and day. We are also going to add more narrative emphasis for example introducing the younger main character earlier and more blending from the boy to the man this will add more emphasis to the video and make the narrative more clear. And the main killer shot we are going to add is him singing very slowly with cars going past then we can increase the speed to the pace of the music and the cars will be going past a lot faster.