Feedback has been a vital
piece of coursework, allowing me to improve and fix my pieces at every stage of
production. It’s the main part of evolving and improving a product. Finding out
what your market feels about you piece is a useful way to work out what is good
about it and what needs to be improved. During my project, I have received
various pieces of audience feedback at many different stages. Without the
feedback, I would never have realised the major things that needed changing in
my first draft, such as the need to put the monster in the background more and
not show it properly at any point, maintaining the suspense that I lost too
early in the first draft. The following is the main feedback I received on my
piece:
"Video fits in with the genre well. Quite
scary at times, but I suppose that's what you want it to be like,
and it suits the genre very well. The actors are really good. I like
the theme of little red riding hood also; it's different. When you do the
singing with the face paint, it suits the genre really good and the lip syncing
is good. Well done man." Vishal Kumar
"Excellent use of mise en scene and well thought-out location. Effective lighting and accurate lip syncing. Good use of contrasting colours with the girl's little red riding hood type appearance.
Good editing of shots, which creates suspense and maintains interest all the way through." Ben Scott
"Narrative works well with the shots. The parallel editing is effective is a lot of shots. Lighting works well the dark genre. Well done :)" Sian Lynes
"The narrative works really well with the video and the whole concept is very effective. If anything, maybe making some shots lighter would of been better to be able to see things in more detail." Laura Ward
"The narrative is by far the most effective aspect of the video; it is believable as it feels very much like you are watching a story. Good use of filters and effects; adds to the creepy atmosphere.
Costume/makeup choices fit well with the theme of the video, and the syncing of the guitars and singing to the music is very accurate. The only criticism I can make is that some shots are a little too dark, particularly the shots of 'Manson' singing. Well done, though." Martyn Hollinshead
"The narrative is really well thought out and generally scares us, which is what we presume you intended. Your costume and make-up is really well done and you look the part. The effects/editing in the video is very effective and advance. If there was one thing to improve on, then it would maybe be the lighting on the main singers face, because it was hard at times to see the lip-syncing." Mattie White & Steph Law
"Good narrative and good costume. Maybe the end could have been scarier as it built up to just her eyes being closed. Makeup and transition are very effective." Mae Burton & Laura Barsby
"Excellent use of mise en scene and well thought-out location. Effective lighting and accurate lip syncing. Good use of contrasting colours with the girl's little red riding hood type appearance.
Good editing of shots, which creates suspense and maintains interest all the way through." Ben Scott
"Narrative works well with the shots. The parallel editing is effective is a lot of shots. Lighting works well the dark genre. Well done :)" Sian Lynes
"The narrative works really well with the video and the whole concept is very effective. If anything, maybe making some shots lighter would of been better to be able to see things in more detail." Laura Ward
"The narrative is by far the most effective aspect of the video; it is believable as it feels very much like you are watching a story. Good use of filters and effects; adds to the creepy atmosphere.
Costume/makeup choices fit well with the theme of the video, and the syncing of the guitars and singing to the music is very accurate. The only criticism I can make is that some shots are a little too dark, particularly the shots of 'Manson' singing. Well done, though." Martyn Hollinshead
"The narrative is really well thought out and generally scares us, which is what we presume you intended. Your costume and make-up is really well done and you look the part. The effects/editing in the video is very effective and advance. If there was one thing to improve on, then it would maybe be the lighting on the main singers face, because it was hard at times to see the lip-syncing." Mattie White & Steph Law
"Good narrative and good costume. Maybe the end could have been scarier as it built up to just her eyes being closed. Makeup and transition are very effective." Mae Burton & Laura Barsby
The song and genre I chose
to use for my music video is not a particularly popular one in modern society,
with metal and Marilyn Manson falling more on the boundaries of youth culture.
This came as a sort of blessing in disguise, as it meant that all of my
feedback would be mostly unbiased and based around the video itself, rather
than a love for the music being used. There was still the chance that someone
would give negative feedback based around not liking the genre or song, but
this was highly unlikely to happen given the lesser known song I used. The
feedback that affected my choices the most however, was what I received after
my I made my first draft. This was highly influential over my decision making
process as it was the major crossroads in the project, in which I could have
gone in many different directions. I feel my first draft was not up to scratch
but feedback from it gave me the means to get it to the stage that it is today,
what I consider a big step. This included the idea of using a little bit more
of the singing and guitar sections in the video, to attempt to improve the
overall acting, and to hide the creature more and to never show it fully, as
this ruined the suspense and horror of the situation. This feedback also
confirmed that the strongest point of my video was the narrative I was
attempting to create through it, and that this was the point I should put focus
on.
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