Feedback

When we showed the class our music video so far, we got positive and some negative feedback which we are then working on to improve our video:

Positive:

• The use of transitions and edits matched the pace of the song
• The target audience would be able to sympathise with the actor in the video
• The narrative and performance based parts in the video were clear
• The shots matched the lyrics of the song, and the audience was able to see what the lyrics meant
• The actor performed well, so the audience was able to understand her situation more, and the class thought we had chosen the right person for the acting
• The mise en scene used was good, for example the white clothing portrayed her innocence, whereas when she was wearing a black jacket it showed that there are two sides to every person, and one that not many people get to see.
• It was a song that not many people have heard of before so they couldn't relate it back to the original music video, which was good because it made ours unique.
• There was a good varitation of locations used, so the video was more interesting.
• One of the audience said that we have picked the beach as the right location for showing the females isolation.

Negative:

• They thought that there was too much of the female, and if there was too much more then the audience would get bored and we wouldn't be able to keep the audiences attention, so to improve this they said they wanted to see a male or someone else introduced into the video, and include him into the story line along the way. 
• One of the students said that one of the clips was too long and we needed to split it up into different sections so that it wasn't too long and kept the audience's attention.
• The audience felt we could have used more fast cuts because the song has an upbeat tempo, so to improve this we decided to mix the range of cuts that we have in our video, and for parts where there are no lyrics and its just instrumental we felt was the best place to put these.

Overall, after taking into consideration the good and the bad points that the audience had said, we decided to introduce the male in the story into the video that this showed another point of view and kept the audiences attention. Also we have added more fast cuts into the song that it matches the tempo when its fast, and when we asked for opinions on that part people said it looked good