Final Draft of Music Video and Feedback

Final Draft of Music Video and Feedback

In order to get feedback from our music video again I asked my media teacher on what she thought about the music video. I thought that my third and final feedback should be from someone who has had experience in the media industry; I believe that the feedback given from my teacher was very important and I hope to alter the clips based on the feedback, Below the feedback I summarised some of the points that my teacher has given and ways that I could rectify the issues that have been addressed.

Third and final draft of music video:



Feedback:

In terms of positives; one thing our media teacher liked was the performances even though we are not graded on this; however it makes the piece seem stronger overall. She went on to say that the lip sync was accurate and she felt engaged with the singer. Furthermore, she liked the idea of the narrative slipping in and out between the music video. 

However a key issue is that that our teacher said was that "at the moment it doesn't feel like a pop video it feels like a short story; and this is because the images aren't working enough with the music this is because the music is moving fast whereas the story is moving slow. This again relates back to previous feedback that we were given suggesting that our clips are far too long. She also suggested that we could see some more close ups of Jeremy the actor. Judging from this feedback it is apparent that some of our coursework is not fully filmed yet and that we can re-film some scenes in order to fully progress. 

My media teacher went on to say that "the story drags, for me your match on action is superb but your framing isn't good; there is too much head-height and in the beginning scene the flower is seen as a subject" this relates to a common feedback that we are still getting from our drafts which is the repetitive nature of the running scenes which makes the story seem the same and consistent. She also said that "remember to cut off at natural points and also you the shot reverse shot when the camera is focusing on Jeremy so from the girlfriends perspective makes it seem less professional". 

A key question that we asked was "What did you think of the narrative piece at the start before the song started?",  she responded with "it's too long, you know when someone has an argument, you don't need to see the shot reverse shot necessarily... and the shot of the door can be used to see you walking down the street". She further said that the there isn't enough of enigma it needs to be tightened more up and moved onto the more interesting stuff.

I believe that this feedback has made me realise that our piece of work isn't as strong as we though it was, however it isn't too late and we can alter our music video according to the strong feedback given by our teacher.