Question 3 - Commentary

 Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Task: Create a director’s commentary which includes clips from the music video and ancillary tasks, as well as vox-pop presentations of audience feedback.

Help: Consider all the forms of audience feedback you have received as well as all methods and contexts for gathering it. Start by making a list of all of the types of feedback you have received, the context in which you received it, methodology and whether you found it useful/ whether you acted on it:

eg. Rough Cut Feedback/ other group feedback on blog/ qualitative/ we added more filters to the video to add genre authenticity. 

1)   Our feedback was useful. We received comments such as improve our green screen

2)   Comments such as matchup the bed posts better- we acted upon this instantly to the best of our ability.

3)   In our feedback it was brought to our attention that we could have made our establishing shot clearer, and could have included more camera angles. We used a variety of shots during our performance, such as low-angles, close-ups, extreme close ups, mid-shots and camera movement such as zooms and panning. However this would have been hard to do whilst presenting the narrative as we chose to set it in a bedroom. As split screen was a big part of our video, we were unable to vary our camera angles as we wanted it to be symmetrical. Also this would have taken away the effect of the passing through of objects, making it very unclear as to what was going on.

4)   In our rough cut feedback there was a comment saying our music video contained ‘too much stop motion.’ Stop motion was our intention for our music video, in our opinion we thought merging live action with stop motion didn’t fit with the conventional idea of our video looking quirky and unrealistic also we thought our video would lose continuity. In hindsight, we were quite ambitious with creating the whole video in stop motion, as this was very time consuming and quite challenging, resulting in loss of time for editing. However, we were happy with our overall outcome of the stop motion, and glad we took on the challenge.