Q4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

With our music video, we were very pleased with most of our feedback that we obtained as it was all positive. Everyone liked the use of base tracks as well as some noticed the techniques that we used such as the sped up effect of the projection shot as well as the slowed down shot on the swing. Everything was well reviewed and I couldn't find anyone who could give us a full on negative comment or review on it. 

Here is a video that I have used earlier on in my blog but it shows all of the reviews that I got after the premiere at the Screen on the Green.  

What I have learnt from my feedback is that hard work pays off. My group and I worked so well as a team as well as dedicated our spare time to complete our editing, we listened to one an other's opinions and took them in, taking in each others feedback and working from it and molding it into the best music video that we could do. 

For example, when we were deciding the possible endings for our video we all had different preferences on what we thought would look best and so we recorded each one and then looked back at them all one by one, deciding which one would be suiting to the end of the video:

 Video A

Video B

Video C

With this compromise, we get good feedback as well due to when we show other people outside of our group the alternative endings, we have many different opinions on what they thought would suit best for the endings. Some thought that video A would suit best as it has a simple ending whilst the lights go out having the projections turn off my face revealing a hauntingly stare into the camera. Some people thought that it would be a good ending as it has a haunting effect where as some thought that it may not be exciting enough after all of the build up for it to be a slightly "boring ending"With video B had a good response from the audience as it has a sort of magical effect to it and as you watch the fairy lights switch off and the artist shut her eyes, it really shows the audience that the video it ending and many of the audiences agreed with this. Finally, video C got the most negative feedback from it as people said that it lingered too much on two shots and that it should vary more on the many options that we had s well as it didn't have "good enough shots, there should be more cuts to make it look more exiting." Over all, we used the ending of Video B. 

Personally, if I had to critique my own video I would have improved on the following, I would have taken the time out to watch fully all the way through all of the shots that we had and then had written down or memorized the good shots so it would have been easier to track down the good shots from the bad as while we were editing, we made our lives a little bit harder by not taking the time out to look through every shot that we had filmed. That way I believe that we could have found better shots to use in some of the base tracks. (Not that I think the base track clips we used aren't good- I just believe that I could have chosen a slightly better ones that may suited the moment of the song better.)

Inside caption. 

Front cover (right) Back cover (Left) 

Poster- Advertisement. 

From my reviews on my digipak and advertisements, everyone seems to have reacted positively, giving the suggestion of their liking to the background image on my advertisement as it links well to the woodlands scenery in the music video. Nathan gave a review of his opinion and how he didn't like the fonts, however, taking that in, I can confidently say that my Target audience wasn't targeted at male audiences. And so I half expected that sort of reaction towards the advertisement as it doesn't appeal to him and others like him (most of the time).
Since most of the comments I got were positive, it is quite difficult to learn from what I can improve on since not many have said anything about what I should improve on except fro Nathan, however, what he said was then overpowered by everyone else mentioning on how much they "liked the font".
Over all, if I could have done more on my ancillary product, I would have wanted a more variety of useful images when editing as there weren't many images that we could have used as because of the lighting available, most of the images came out blurry.

Please go to link below- I tried to add it to the site like I usually do but it wouldn't upload. Sorry. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGWBbbGGwx8&list=UUjNjtfp78qkMeIKrvcFjJ3Q&index=1&feature=plcp