Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

This is the feedback my group were given by our class on our rough cut (see Rough Cut in the links). This feedback was crucial to making sure the video's narrative was understood by everyone and we could also gain some criticisms' to progress on the final cut. It turned out that this was the best ideo we could have asked for as we realised our Rough Cut was far too bleak and repetitive, and the narrative was not clear to understand at all.

So to make our video better, we added more shots of the narrative, took our the shots of the singer with a guitar (because they simply looked awful), and played about with panning and tracking shots. All of this made our final cut look ten times better than the rough cut (see Final Cut in the links).

Not only did we get feedback on our rough cut, but we also showed the final cut to some school friends so that we could gain their feedback too:

Untitled from Alex Newcombe on Vimeo.

Even though it is too late to make dramatic changes to our final cut, we learnt that, positively, our video was actually at a good standard for its genre and we had successfully created a video fitting with the style of music it was for.

On the negative side, it appears that the narrative was still not clear enough for some members of the audience as the idea of it confused some of them. Also, some of our camera shots were not at their best state. This is shown in the above video at around 1:54.

Overall however, my group are very pleased with the outcome of the final cut and its initial response from most people who have filmed it as the majority of them appeared to be positive.