After a group of 200ish 16-18 year olds watched my finished music video during an assembly whilst filling out my questionnaire, I am able to see their anonymous replies to the questions. Here are the results:
Obviously the music video isn’t going to be everybody’s taste! But atleast no one said they didn’t like it at all! Which is a good thing 🙂 It was evident that the majority of the people who answered yes, were females, and I suppose the relationship plot is probably appreciated more by females.
It seems like a fairly split decision! I’m really pleased with this because I concentrated on all aspects of the music video in accordance with the plot, the camera shots and the use of colour. So I’m really pleased that all of them were evident and the audience could see these elements.
Obviously at some point, some people are going to disagree and I completely understand this as it’s not perfect! I think the verses match in time with the music video, and I used foot tapping in accordance with the drums, and I made sure the cycles entered the shot at the particular slide in the bass riff, but in the second chorus, where it should be up beat, it was all put into slow motion to distinguish the flashbacks, but I suppose this could’ve been improved.
At least no one said ‘not at all’ so at least the narrative was coming across partly or mostly to everyone! Obviously my whole storyboarding plot and narrative changed completely, and due to time constraints and being realistic in terms of filming certain things, so my beginning idea would’ve made so much more sense if I went through with it. But I tried my hardest to make the plot clearer by dividing the scenes between friendship and relationships and not crossing them.
It was fairly split that there was either a partly or yes, with a few not at alls. But I definitely understand this. Although I feel I definitely represented youth and relationships, I think I lacked a little on the fashion shots. I did show, leather boots, converse boots, leopard print coat, beaded necklace, tartan knitwear and union jack jumpers, but perhaps it wasn’t evident enough throughout the whole video, only very subtle.
Again, I understand this because perhaps I shouldn’t have put some shots in slow motion when the chorus is quite up-beat.
This… I completely disagree with. I know the majority said I did include plenty of shots, but the ‘could’ve been a little more’, I don’t think is fair. I actually concentrated on using EVERY possible shot in the history of media, with what equipment we had… I featured 30 different types of shot and movement, so perhaps they weren’t focusing too much and missed that aspect…
Although it is important to take constructive criticism, I must say I think some of the comments and answers are completely false, and this is because they aren’t media students and possibly won’t understand, I apply this to when a few people said there weren’t many camera shots or variety of surroundings, when in fact, I used about 20 different shots and in 3 different locations. It was fairly a split decision between ‘yes’ and ‘partly’ answers. And I noticed that the partly section were mostly 16 year old males, whereas 17-18 year old males and definitely all females tended to love the music video. The comment about the lip-synching is completely false, because not only did everyone else agree that it was definitely in synch but I spent hours making sure it was all lined up in time. I agree that perhaps the friendship shots looked a little OTT and forced, but we were all trying really hard to get across that we were having a great time, and Rob may have looked a little less enthusiastic because I wanted to make him look heartbroken, but obviously none of us are actors or actresses but we tried our best to get the point across! And on the most part, people enjoyed it and got the point of the music video 🙂
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