Feedback

Final Music Video Feedback

To gain feedback for our music video we decided to publicise our video on facebook. Ellis posted the video onto her account and these are some of comments she received back...

Plan of Action

After receiving our feedback Ellis, Bethan and myself have had a brainstorm as to how we can make big improvements to our video. The thing that really hit home for us was that we need to add something a bit different to the middle part of our video. We think we've come up with just the right idea to really bring the 'Demons' out in our video...

Brainstorm

The whole boyfriend girlfriend break-up is still the main idea in our video but we've added this evil infant character to the story to really spice things up. Where before the middle part just consisted of Taylor walking around emotionally being all sad, we're now going to add hallucinations into it. This time Taylor is going to visualise a small and evil child leading him somewhere to show him what he thinks is his girlfriend with another boy. This is really going to trip him out and he only comes back to reality when he receives the 'it's over' text from his girlfriend. Like before he is going to run back home and knock on the door for his girlfriend. However, this time we'll see the girlfriend look out the window at him and then turn back in disgust, then following this the demon child will look through the curtains in the same spot. Is the demon child real or is it just a figure of the boyfriend's imagination??

The Demon

We plan to use Ellis's younger sister Gracie to play the evil infant and will have to come up with props and make up to make her look a bit twisted. This character is now the 'demon' which is constantly referred to throughout the song. This time round we're going to use a park in daylight to film the hallucinations in response to the comment that there was a lack of light in our rough cut.

Rough Cut - The Feedback

Feedback Sheets

Last Thursday the class watched everyone's rough cuts and we wrote down notes for improvement on each other's videos. When we got handed our feedback back we analysed the criticisms and worked together to identify what the most common points for improvement were.

• A lot of people said that there was  a lack of colour is our shots and that some of the shots were too dark to see. 
• Some said that some of our acting was unconvincing like the argument scene and the banging on the door.
• Others said that our middle part was a bit boring, had too much walking around in it. Something else needs to happen, to create an edge to the video.
• Also the video is broken up into three sections but they aren't divided up very evenly. Some said we need to lengthen the start and end a bit more.
• Another comment we received was to involve the female character more and make it more clear as to who she actually is.
• Lastly, we need to use a more variety of shots, more close ups in particular.