Audience Feedback

I recentlty recieved my audience feedback and I was relatively happy with my results. In general, all coments stated that my music video was deemed good to excellent. I am very happy with this. However, here are some critcisms I have picked out:

• Lack of editorial creativity


• Not enough variation of shot composition


• Singing not in complete synchronisation

I accept these three criticisms. I will now state why I think these criticisms ocurred, and what I could have done differently.

EDITORIAL CREATIVITY:

I agree that in terms of editing, the maximum level of creativity was not established. This, in my opinion, is because of the song and band I chose. I feel that in creating an Oasis music video, there are certain formats it must follow such as having a performance or narrative music video and using a frontman such as Liam or Noel Gallagher. Looking back I think my music video would have been more succesful had i chosen a different song because I would have had more oppurtunities to create an abstract video that made sense with a paticular song.

SHOT COMPOSITION:

On some level I think this may be considered an accurate criticism, however I did think that in general I had included enough variation of shots. One thing looking back is that perhaps I could have included more shots from a high angle. But I do think that this was a fairly harsh criticism.

SINGING IN SYNCHRONISATION:

I think that this is a fair comment. The synchronizing period was an extremely time consuming process and one that I thought we generally did ok with. However I think to master it properly it requires hours in the editing suite that we unfortunately did not have. When the video was finished, my partner and I thought that the synchronizing we had done was of a good standard. However I think one can become too warped in one's work and fail to realise the errors in front of you. In hindsight, I wish that I asked a fellow student to review my music video and point out such errors in order to prevent this happening.