Our Music Video & What have you learned from your audience feedback? (question3)

This is our final music video. We we both happy with the end product.



after handing out our audience questionnaires and collecting them in we were able to see if our product was successful or not.

Here are 3 of the questionnaires we received back:

Using the comments from our questionnaire we found a number of things with our music video.
One of the first questions we asked was 'did you like the video?' - to which a large number of replies where 'yes'. That was a positive start, clearly we did something right.
A lot of people said that the black and white in contrast to the colour shots worked really well with the music genre. They thought that the idea of using black and white for past and colour for present was very fitting for the song and style of music.
We also received quite a few comments that the visuals matched nicely with the audio. Whether this was the timings or the idea behind the visuals wasn't clear, which is something we would have to make clear if we were to do this again.

Both me and Yasmin thought that the visuals matched the genre/style of music because the song was about a relationships, meaning, and memories, which i think we portrayed well in our video. The whole narrative explained what the song was about, and played out to be a convincing narrative style music video.

Some feedback we received said they didn't like some of the quick cuts we used in editing but some said that they found the editing affective, when also put with the transitions at different points in the song. We think that the editing worked fine, and that any other transitions may have taken from the piece.

The camera angels were complimented, where a few people had said they liked the high angle shot in the bedroom, and the long shots and medium shots of the couple in the park. Some people said that the black and white effect complimented the angels and depths of shots. I personally liked all of the shots, except for 1 which i wasn't sure on; the angel of shot 6 seemed to work with the rest of the piece, but i think it may have worked better had it of been horizontal, like the others. However, the tilted shot did create interest and break up the standard horizontal shots, which i think was a good idea.

We felt that since a number of replies to 'did you like the video' was 'yes', meant that those who had replies yes had been interested the whole way through. This was good because it means that our music video cleared followed a narrative that the audience wanted to follow through to the end.

I think if we were to change any aspects of the video, from the feedback given, it might possibly be some of the editing, maybe softer throughout (using transitions) and possibly, with the opportunity, use a better quality camera, however the ones we used where the schools cameras and clearly were not professional ones.