Video Feedback

On Wednesday, we all had to show our music video to the two media teachers and the rest of our class to get feedback on what we've done well and what we can improve. We generally got good feedback, even though we've still not finished the actual video yet! We have a good mix of narrative and performance shots, but we need to work on syncing every part of the video to the music. One of the teachers commented on our theme of our video and about the characters we used. We decided to focus the video on friendship issues rather than relationship issues which is quite often found in videos of similar genre, as seen in the screen shots below.

Rihanna








Pixie Lott



Katy Perry


However, she thought that our video showed a good example of traditional representation as you could interpret the video as being about a same sex relationship.


We were told that we had a really good balance of narrative and performance shots that complemented each other well. We also got good feedback on the narrative scenes as the story fitted really well to our target audience, and also flowed well. However, the lighting on the main performance scenes (where Emma is on stage) were criticised because of the quality of the shots. The lighting was very bright but the picture ended up being quite fuzzy and blurry. Filming in this setting was quite difficult as we were only able to see Emma clearly if the lighting was very bright, which resulted in the poor quality afterwards. Susan decided to upload our video onto YouTube and then onto Facebook, a social networking site that we both regularly use, to get feedback from a wide range of people both who we know and don't know. This picture is a screenshot of the post and the comments we recieved.



One person commented on the miming of the music, Emma didn't actually sing the song for all of our filming, sometimes she just mimed which could explain why it doesn't look as good as it could. This is definitely something that should be considered if we were to refilm some scenes.

Mr Rees, our media teacher, said that some of our shots were a bit still and said we should look at the Ken Burns tool on iMovie. This allowed us to select a certain area of a shot and zoom out in the direction we chose, which made it look like we had used more panning shots throughout filming.


Our Questionnaire
To get even more feedback on our video, we decided to create a questionnaire to give to other students between the ages of 16 and 19.

How would you rate our music video out of 10?
1 - 0
2 - 0
3 - 0
4 - 0
5 - 4
6 - 5
7 - 11
8 - 2
9 - 3
10 - 0

How would you rate the performance out of 10?
1 - 0
2 - 0
3 - 0
4 - 0
5 - 0
6 - 7
7 - 8
8 - 9
9 - 1
10 - 0

How would you rate the narrative out of 10?
1 - 0
2 - 0
3 - 0
4 - 0
5 - 3
6 - 9
7 - 12
8 - 1
9 - 0
10 - 0

Does the narrative create an easy to follow story?
Yes - 19
No - 5
Don't know - 1

Does our video look like a pop video?
Yes - 22
No - 3

Have we used a variety of different shot types?
Yes - 18
No - 7

The results show that all students rated our video with a score higher than 5, with the majority of people rating it as a 7. I think this shows that overall, our video is of good quality but still has room for improvements.
Our performance scenes rated higher on average than the narrative scenes, I think this is because we only had a very few scenes where only narrative was used, making it harder to distinguish between the two. Most people thought our storyline was easy to follow, which I agree with as we made it quite basic and light hearted. 22 out of 25 people thought our video looked like a pop video which is very good as that's what we had intended it to look like! The main things I think we could improve on would be using more shot types and making our narrative scenes more interesting.