Clive's Media Blog!: Rough Cut Video Feedback

As we can see from the graph we have been graded on the 2 - 3 boundary mostly with comment such as, “Good for a rough cut”, however this does suggest we need to make our video better before we finalise it.

There were many things about our video that our classmates and teachers liked. Most of our positive feedback contained and comment about how our choice of actors for the band and narrative were good, these were aimed more so at our choice for the lead singer. Comments such as “The main singer looks good” and that he looks “so realistic”.
A lot of our shots have been picked up on for being good. Our audience liked the point of view shot of the handle bars of the bike. This helped the audience get into the feel of the main character.
The end shot of the video when the main character and the ‘pretty visitors’ walk over the camera was also highlighted as a ‘killer shot’.
Although these shot were good our viewers wanted more like them. This is one way we can improve our video.

Our attention was draw to our band performance shots with a mixture of comments both positive and negative. The lighting of our shots “reflected the personality of the band”, if we have to re-shoot our performance we will keep the lighting the same.
Unfortunately our drummer got the worst of our negative feedback, however this is understandable as the shots are out of time and the drums are being played right. We will have to re-shoot the sections with drums in. Therefore we will either need to get our original drummer to learn the song or get a new drummer.

I feel the best choice to improve our video is to re-shoot the majority of the performance and narrative shots.
I think that we need to relocate our forest shots as the main feature in the footage at the moment is the metal fence as it is off-putting for the viewers. I think that cloaking the ‘Pretty Visitors’ is a must as it is unclear what they are. The need for more visitors isn’t a must but would give a better feeling of insanity to the main character.

I also feel a complete re-shoot of the performance would give an overall better affect to the music video, as we could improve the shots. For example we could raise the drums on a pedestal/platform with a new drummer as the drums get lost in the background of the shots. More close ups of the lead singer is also a priority as this is stated in Andrew Goodwin’s music video theory.