Feedback from my Mum

Below shows video feedback from my Mum about my final cut of my music video. This is my secondary feedback because my Mum is not necessarily my specific target audience because she don't necessarily have a keen interest in consuming media like music videos but she would have an interest in this style of music because of the original by Elton John.

Feedback from AS class

I decided to gather feedback from a media class in the year below as some of the people would be the target audience for the video (young girls 15+ who would watch a video with a romantic narrative.) These people will be my primary feedback as they are the main people that my video is targeted towards. The feedback is useful and relevant to me as it is directed towards my specific target audience. 

For the people in the group who would not watch this video out of choice and not be my target audience their feedback is also useful because they will have a knowledge of media work and terms to give me more specific and professional feedback. 

The main points that the group made about my work were:

-It was repetitive in parts
-Match on action is good
-The end of the video would be better if it went from blurry to focused sooner
-Like the end shot and sparkly technique
-Liked the different locations especially the fairy light inside scene
-The video is simple and effective

Evidence of my feedback....

Construction- video

Changes to the video

After a talk with our teacher she gave us the advice that our video didn't flow as professionally as we wanted it to. We thought it would look better to edit the video so that the different shots cut to the next shot in the middle of a lyric instead of after a line of song so that it flows better. 

We decided that more of a variation of shots so that we could cut the video more quickly would make the video look more professional. So we went out and filmed some more landscape scenery to add to the variation of shots in between our character singing. The sunsets, lakes and fields that we filmed fit the romantic and natural look of the video.    

We also decided to add a video effect of sparkles to the video that we gathered from Youtube. We then added the effect over the top of parts of the video and lowered the opacity so that it looked less harsh and fitted in naturally with the video. We added this effect to add to the magical and romantic look of the video and give it that extra something.

Feedback from AS Class

After editing our video further and receiving feedback from our A2 class we decided to show our nearly completed music video to an AS Media Class, to gain feedback on it at this stage in the editing.

Their feedback was -

Storyline - Like the narrative of the couple

Liked all the transitions - Good use of match on action pretty solid

Background sound was still on in one of the clips

They rated our video overall at 8/10.

This feedback was all very positive and other than the comment on the background sound, which we can easily fix, we received no other negative feedback or suggestions. This proved to us that our music video performed well within its target audience. As well show to us that it had impressed other media students, and hopefully of good quality.

Feedback from the class

I asked the class to watch my rough cut individually and make notes on paper to see what they thought of it. This is what they said: 

- Good use of camera shots
- Camera unsteady at some points in the snow
- Nice story line
- Like the piano parts, it fits the theme of the song
- Sing when she walks in where there are no lyrics?
- Good variety of shots and props- lights etc
- Needs more of a variety of shots
- Good use of miss-en-scene
- Good lip sync- edit of sound to the lip movement
- Engaging video
- Cute video for a love song
- Good use of the black and white effect
- Snow is a nice touch to the video
- Good use of cuts
- Great narrative storyline

Rough cut

Above shows our first edit of our music video. This was put together using our own ideas of the layout and timings. It is now important to gather as much feedback as possible from our target audience, teacher and other people who are not our specific target audience to make improvements to the video.