Class Feedback on Final Draft Video

In class we viewed each others music videos and anonymously gave constructive criticism and commented on points we thought were good within the product. We then left a mark out of ten which we felt the product deserved.

Having received the feedback from the class on our open product we were pleased. We were given generous marks out of 10, and points which bolstered confidence in our video.

We were given six 9/10 marks which whilst we weren't expecting this gave us confidence that we had a created a passable product. Many points were given which suggested our video ticked boxes which we hoped it would be able to. For example comments were made on the use of locations being effective to our genre of music, comments suggested it fitted the 'darkness' of the song.

We received comments on the effectiveness of the variety of shots that we tried purposely to include. we did this to try and keep pace to the song and create something that the target audience would expect. We received comments that we had a good variety of shots included and that the bass shots and drum shots were effective. Throughout the process the shots I was most pleased with were the shots of the bassist at the beginning of the video. It seems this may be a consensus of views.

Criticism was also given, something which we hopeful to receive to see whether it was fitting with what we had received from the teachers or whether the audience thought something else of what we had created.
On the whole we were pleased to see we received feedback similar to what the teachers had given.  This suggests that there weren't other elements in the video that we had failed to rectify.

One piece of criticism included that of how we could have included a few more shots. Something we did do in the second draft by splitting particular long shots; however it would seem we could have provided a few more; for evidence of our attempts to solve the problem and act on the criticism.

A second piece of criticism we received was that the drumming was  bit soft. Again this was something which we had been told about. However we did rectify this issue in the second draft I personally feel that this is obvious in some of the shots-only some of the shots as we rectified those in the reshoots.

These were the criticisms we received and I'm not disappointed. I'm happy that our video was viewed in a way that suggests it was popular and fitted peoples ideas of what a music video should be.