Audience Feedback

We held a screening for our video and then showed the audience our album cover and website. I made a facebook group for the screening and we also prepared a questionnaire.

Click here for the event page on facebook.

Here are the questions that are in our questionnaire:

- What genre of music do you listen to/Who are your favourite artists?
- Do you think it looks like a real music video?
- Do you think that it looks professional? If so, what do you think makes it look professional?
- Do you find the video entertaining? If so, what in particular do you like?
- Does the video appeal to you? What in particular does/doesn’t appeal to you?
- Can you compare the video to any real videos you know?
- What can you tell us about the group? Can you explain the story behind the video? What do you think is the relationship between the two artists?
- What genre do you think the song is?What music channel(s) would you expect to see the video on?
- What kind of venues would it be likely for the group to play? What TV shows would you expect to see them on?
- Do you find the artists appealing? If so, what about them is appealing?
- Would you want to watch the video more than once?
- Would you pay to/illegally download the song/video? Why?
- What’s your favourite part of the video? .
- Do you have any criticisms? (Be honest!)
- Do you like the album cover and MySpace?
- Do you think they tie in with/match the video?

We got a lot of useful feedback which we will discuss in our evaluation.



- Mel, for the group -

Test Screening

Today we held a test screening of our music video with other media students. This was both for us to see the video on a bigger screen so that we could see if there was anything wrong with it, and to get feedback from other students to see if there was anything that they didn't like or thought we should change. We got a lot of good feedback that was really useful in completing the video:
- We noticed, as did the other students, that a lot of the lipsynching was out of time. We hadn't noticed this before on the edit suite so it was useful to see this on the bigger screen.
- Many of the studens also said that they thought the blur on the flashbacks was too high meaning that they couldn't really see the shot as well as they would want to. They also thought the white blur around the shots was too much, which meant the dreamy, flashback effect didn't work as it looked too much like a white border round the shots.
- One of the students also wasn't sure about the last shot, stating that it seemed a bit pointless. However, we feel that the last shot sums up how he's feeling (lost and confused) and is a nice way to end the video.
However, we also got some positive feedback:
- All the students agreed that the performances we got out of our actors were really good and believeable. They also said that they believed in the emotions portrayed, and felt sorry for our main artist, which is what we were aiming for.
- They also said that they liked the editing. Including the parts where we cut quickly between similar shots and when we cut on the beat, among other edits.

 - Mel, for the group -