Feedback from the class

This week in class which each presented our own music videos to our media group and gave feedback on what we felt was good and bad about each video. When we showed our video, the rest of the class took notes thorughout and then we all had an open discussion about the positive and negative features of our video. We justified some mistakes that we noticed ourselves and spoke of the things we wish to change in the future. This was a very useful task as we were able to gain a better understanding of the success of our video, as we can only provide a biased opinion, given that we created it and are therefore very proud of our acheivements. the feedback we got was:

Review 1:
This person thought that the miming to the song was good and they liked it, they commented on how we had done a good job in the editing process to ensure that our lip synching closely matched the song. I was pleased people had recognised this, as I had spent a lot of time when editing the video splitting the clips perfectly to ensure the lips synching was perfectly synchronised. They also liked the match strike as well and felt that this was very effective. They also said that a lot of the shots in the video were steady, however they did notice the "accidental zoom" that we have used in our first draft video, wehere the video zooms and moves while the camera is still running. We used a variety of shoots as well in the music video. The variety of camera angles were good as well, and the different mise-scene we used.

Review 2:
This person said that we depicted a stereotypical pop music video, with a lot of close ups on the singer, which was good as it helped to establish the genre. They liked the storyline with eddy and Bethany (the abusive scences)and they too noticed the darken clips which we put into the editing. They notice the random horse as well in the background, however they said while it was slightly distracting, it did not ruin the overall impact of the music video.

Review 3:
They said that they felt there could have been more of the "abusive boyfriend" scenes as they felt this was a very good attribute to the video. They found the lip syncing in the music video was very effective and realistic. They also noticed the horse but the fog in that scene worked well. They liked the brightness with artist and darkness of the storyline and commented that it really made an impact on the story and allowed the mood to be established.

Review 4:
They also liked the mise-en-scene particauly the fog, and that the storyline complimented the song. They thought the flashing (flashback) was very effective at the end of the music video, but they noticed the horse and the slippers in the background.

Review 5:
They liked the flashback and thought this was a very creative idea. Like everybody else they noticed the random horse ine back ground. So we know if go back to we need to edit the horse out or re-film that scence but their might not be a fog. They said that there were some times in the video where we could have framed the shots a little more efficiently. These reviews are fairly positive and it is good to see that people noticed that the editing was very good for our video.