Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I felt that in order to really access a wider audience I needed to make use of the internet, so I decided to collect the following questions using Survey Monkey.

1.       On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate the media product created?

The graph above shows how a group of 23 people rated my music video out of 10, with the percentage of total people asked on the left hand side. The average rating was 7.7, although 8/10 received the most votes. This shows the general feeling of my music video was very positive, people must have enjoyed the viewing and possibly been inclined to watch the video again(repeatability factor).

2. What were your impression of the main character?

·         From the majority of the answers gathered, I have found that we were highly successful in creating a character who looked lost, lonely and portrayed the role of ‘troubled teen’

·         ‘Confused, upset, young, self destructive, close to the edge’ This is the key answer that I think sums up our character an also justifies some of our scenes, such as when he is on the edge of the cliff looking of ‘close to the edge’.

·         Robi (our actor), I felt portrayed the role brilliantly, the vast comments on the type of character in the video shows that he played the character well as was able to communicate visually the way the protagonist was feeling to great extent

Did you have a favourite scene/shot from the video?

Of the 23 poeople who answered myt questionnair, I found for this question that the majority of people saiod their favourite scene was the action match where the protagonist falls of the cliff and then lands on his bed.

·         This question linked with the proceeding question provides different points of view on particular sections, such as the opening scene where the band walk into the rehearsal studio/garage.  ‘Opening scene when walking into garage to play song. Very natural and realistic’, whereas acclaimed short film director Graham Lester George says ‘That very first cut with the band filing into the garage. Does it bring anything extra to the video? For my money, just go straight in with the shot of the drummer.’

·         People also tended to agree that the best shot was the action match where the protagonist falls off a cliff, back into his bed, I believe this shot creates a repeatability factor(Dyer)

 

 

Did you notice any lip syncing issues?

There were in some places, lip syncing issues, We did not plan our time effectively so on the day we ended up filming lots of shots of the finger, but not really in chronological order, this meant that it was not easy for us to check which parts we had all the footage we needed for, then when it came to editing we also did not leave ourselves much time, and so could not re film the band shots, so when we noticed that we did not have a complete song that was free of syncing errors, there was very little that we could do, Such as at 2:36 where the lead singer is not speaking into the microphone. There is some places of the video, where we deliberately asked the singer to laugh, in order to create a positive relaxed feeling about the video, this backfired slightly as some people thought that the actors just weren’t very good.

 

 

 

Graham Lester George -

Director of short film 'Special Delivery'.

Thoughts of suicide are dramatic and often lead to tragedy, so if he was approaching something as dramatic and tragic again, it would give the whole thing more impact to find more visually arresting scenes - a very, very high bridge or building with maybe a long shot of Ikki silhouetted against the sky as he contemplates the jump. It's this kind of thing that will make the audience sit on the edge of their seats and give more power to the piece.

But overall I think it was well done - oh just one more thing, that very first cut with the band filing into the garage. Does it bring anything extra to the video? For my money, just go straight in with the shot of the drummer.

 

Ben Field -

Director of Children In Need's Morecambe + Wise with Chris Moyles Dance Sketch in 2012. He also co wrote and directed 'The Chronicles of Professor Elemental' which is a pilot series I worked on in March.

...Hey, sorry - I have watched it and have some comments. I've had an opportunity to write them down yet. It's mainly to do with getting mire performance out of the band who just look Like they dont want to be there! The black and white sections are nice though...