Audience feedback from showcasing

Our speech rough guideline for the evening.

This is another post for my group, just so everyone understands what they’re doing on the showcase night. Also if you lose your speech for some reason, you can find it on here.

1. Greeting- Hannah

2. Introduction- Hannah

3. The one minuet extract that Radhika & I did will be talked about here- Radhika

4. The one minuet extract needs to be explained, what we did and why. Sir recommended that this whole speech should be kept short and sweet, so this section should only be around 4 sentences.- Radhika

5. The ideas behind the music video- Me

6. This section will ask if the audience would please give feedback afterwards.- Mark

7. Thus followed by, something along the lines of, ‘we hope you enjoy it.’- Mark

This is rough but, it should go along the lines of….

1+2- I would like to introduce our group. I’m Hannah; this is Marissa, Radhika & Mark. We have been working on an indie piece of music, & have developed a video for the song ‘Blue Skies’ by Noah + the Whale.

3+4- Radhika’s section was not planned since she was away.

5- The name of our artist is Oliver Fox, which we all collaborated. One day in our media lesson, we all agreed we liked the name Oliver, and then brainstormed some ideas for a surname. The same process was applied to devising the name of the track, replacing the original song of the music video, called ‘Nights of Broken Sleep’

6+7- We hope you enjoy our video and we would be very appreciative for any feedback. Thank you for your time.

Audience Feedback

We received a lot of positive feedback upon our music video from our written audience feedback, this took place during our showcase evening. I found a lot of the feedback truly useful to how others perceive our music video in these key areas associated with cinematography, editing, lighting, costume, etc. Many thought the song choice was a great one and that it fit the mood of the narrative we came up for the music video, our music video was also reviewed outside the showcase by year 7 and 8’s, whom found it difficult to understand the narrative. I completely understand this would be a tad beyond their year, suggesting our target market is slightly older, between 15-30 year olds.

Of course we had plenty of feedback to review, record and to summarise the results of each audience reponse, so we divided the audience feedback between the four of us and gave each other a copy of our results for each question on did a brief chart up on excel and made our own individual summarise up on our blogs of what we found in our audience feedback. I found this method easy to getting a total view of all of  our audience reponse to the video. On our questionnaire we had had our audience provide distinction between gender and favourite type of music. In the feedback I reviewed there were 4 females, 6 males and 3 others that weren’t stated. As for favourite music only one person states Indie as they’re favourite genre of music, while 3 mostly liked pop and rock music, also only one person stating R&B as their favourite genre of music. From the 13 responses people left a mark out of 10 and this averaged an 8, hannah also shared the same result with Radhika recieving an outstanding 9 out of 10 for our music video.

Negatives:-

Many of our audience commented on the change of our main character’s appearance, which was how it changed from curly to being cut short in the capture scene in the middle of the music video. We were not to blame for our actors decision to his hair, but I do understand that this is something to maintain in a music video is our artist entire appearance and that this came off somewhat ‘unrealistic’, Hannah correctly says its clearly the same person.

We received positive feedback on the on the choice of costume, which was thought to have ‘fitted well’ although not everyone think what the actors attire was entirely suitable or to they liking. Our music video is an indie video and I have research that backs this kind of dress code as a prominent convention of indie music. Even though we filmed on different days we sustained the same or similar clothing throughout the music video.

One individual was not in favour of the gun remaining blue as they felt it was unrealistic and could have been painted to fulfil the likeness of a real gun that I agree the gun could have been spray painted black. When me and Hannah bought this toy gun the shop keeper said they no longer sell them in black due to gun crime the government do not promote crime so that is why they are sold in different colours to prevent the misconception. When we were filming in a public park on one occasion a woman thought it was real, but we explained to her it was a toy gun and saw the colour and realised it was fake and that weren’t causing any trouble or harm to either ourselves and those around us.  If we were to do it again I would consider the unrealistic nature of the gun would be reformed by spraying it black.

we received some comments on the location which some people thought could use with a ‘better setting’ that is should ‘not be in a public park’, suggesting more isolation of the scenes in the park, because towards the end of the music video when our male character suddenly kills the girl they is a dog walker in the background that many found distracting and a low point the presentation of the music video. After the showcase once we recorded our results we immediately acted on this shot and replaced it with a shot without a dog walker, which our group were happier to take this from our draft.

 

Positives:-

There were many areas if the music video we received positive feedback on, some our audience liked the narrative because it had unexpected twists which kept them entertained throughout, even someone calling it the best video of the evening. Some of audience liked the variety of shots used in the views of nature to emulate the mood of the character or situation. Many the editing was good as the transition was considered to be ‘clear’ and ‘sharp that I know Hannah and Radhika worked really hard on to make it right. I learned from the editing process how challenging it can be to edit a ¾ minute music video that it fits the music and make wise transitions and that the narrative was easy to follow on the whole with the setting being "very appropriate" reflecting the state of mind of the character (black and white for anger and high contrast effects on blue skies to correspond with warm feelings within the lyrics). Even though most people grasped the narrative one other individual didn’t like how it video starts with the end which they thought the suspense most people felt watching it was lost. However this is something that our group distinguished from the start how to open the music video with the end and this is seen in some televisions dramas and music videos as different trend from the conventional let’s start from the beginning shall we, but I understand how this won’t be receptive to everyone who watches the opening. We took on negative criticism to further enhance the quality of our music video after the showcase but we were also happy that overall the audience feedback suggests we have successfully created an Indie music video that it was “exciting” and had creative use of shots, angles and transitions all of which our group is so proud of a glad to have received such raving reviews as much as we benefitted from some constructive criticism to go back and to further enhance the quality of the end product.