Audience Feedback

In one of our media lesson we were given the opportunity to see the rest of our class and receive some feedback on what they thought of our music video. Each group was given a sheet each with  table on it and some questions. In the table under the video skills was:

• Holding a shot steady where appropriate,
• framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate,
• Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate,
• Shooting material appropriate to the task,
• Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer,
• Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting, Using varied shot transitions, captions and other effects selectively and appropriate,
• Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task.

The questions were:

1. How successful is the representation of the artist in the video?
2. Who do you consider to be the target audience for the artist/video?
3. Do you think that this video will stand up to repeat viewing? Please state why you think this is or isn't the case.
4. Please ass any further comments that you think would be helpful to the production group when writing their evaluations.

From the class there was 3 other groups to comment on our video and we had a sheet to comment on our own video too. Our highest score from our class mates was the last video skill which was Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task, all groups gave us a big mark. We scored high in all the the other video skills except for Framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate, shooting material appropriate to the task and using varied shot transitions, captions and other effects selectively and appropriately. I believe the reason we didn't score very high in these two skills was because no every shot was perfect. A few that was used from the editing were shaking and were moving when it should be still and vise-versa. But with the shooting materials appropriate to the task i believe we should of got higher, the only reason i could say we achieved so low is that the audience didn't quite understand the narrative to the music video, i think we could of thought of  clearer way to explain a bully theme but we had limited technology, limited people and a very limited time.
With the questions the fed back was positive, for the first question everyone said that it was clear and understood who the artist was. The second question's feedback was good, all the groups put Goth's, emo's, rock, teenagers i believed these were put due to the costumes that was chosen and the kind of music it is. But the teenagers bit was what we wanted to achieve and target audience to teens and that is what the audience believed the music video was aimed at. The third question was good everyone put good, but each group put a different reason, one put because the scene match's the clips,another put because it is similar to other videos and the last group put because it was interesting to watch. Only one group answered the final question and they put the only change should be at the end the artist looks at the camera; but because of a limited time we couldn't go back and film.

By Louise Thorne