Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

My audience feedback has been a great in help in producing the final cut to my video. Most of the critical feed back focused on the fact that there were little to none shots of the band in the first few rough cuts, however, they did like how I edited the narrative but that too also needed more editing to make it more entertaining.

Whilst they enjoyed the first cut, I was told to add more memory shots of Craig and Victoria when they were still together. I also needed more shots of Craig when he was dealing with the breakup to match the subtle sadness of the song despite its fast beat pace. Also, during the part of the song where the line 'I wake up screaming your name' is playing, I originally had the shots change from good memories to bad memories on each verse, this recieved positive feedback at first but later found it a bit slow and not fitting with the beat of the song. Now the shots change on prominent drum beats.

The band shots were hard to edit and I recieved some critisism that you could tell that they werent singing the song playing, however, after some editing and carefully watching Sam singing, I was able to edit to a point where it seems that he is singing the song. Thankfully, I was able to to place the instrumental shots at the right times in the song, I recieved positive critism that these were good.

Overall, the final version of my video recieved a lot of positive feedback from classmates and friends outside school, one comment said that they didnt get bored whilst watching the video and that for me is a big compliment as I feared that video was boring.