Audience feedback

Yesterday lunchtime, I took the chance to do our first audience feedback as this will help us no whether we are on the right track with our music video or not. Altogether there were 10 people watching our video (6 boys and 4 girls). I asked them 4 questions to get a inside of what they really thought about our music video.

Question 1: What did you like?
- Scenery was good, large variety
- Location
- The quality of the video was awesome
- Shots of the scenery
- Different shots of Ickworth
- The filming
- The footage
- Good quality, filming of individual shots
- Good steady filming, good mixture of scenes
- Lip syncing, environment shots, filming good, looks professional

Question 2: What didn't you like?
- Part of the video was like slide show of trees
- The song
- Music
- Some shots were to sharp - looked like a slide show
- Scene changes not on the beat - is this intentional?
- The girl pretending to sing with the lyrics is off beat
- Too long 'slide show' bit
- The random shots - why sheep?
- Too many images - more moving shots needed in between still shots

Question 3: What would you change/improve?
- Use less pictures of trees
- More movement
- Less slide shots
- Less snappy shots
- Get rid of the side show/change it
- Less slide show and needs a storyline
- Less slide show and make singing en-sync
- Get rid of random shots as there is far too many of them
- Get the video to be less random
- Keep it on one day as the seasons are not clear at all

Question 4: Is this a video that you would expect to see on a music channel? Why?
- Yes, good variety of scenery
- No, there was a slow pace to it and not many advanced things
- Yes, good quality filming
- Yes, girl singing
- No, it's too random and not a good song
- Not sure as don't watch them much but I think it is too random to pass as a really music video
- Possibly, quite good
- Yes, good quality of filming
- Yes, good mixture of scenes but the song wouldn't make the charts
- Yes, but the song is too bad to make it back

Now to comment on a few of these comments:
- Bad points about the song came up in nearly every bodies comments. From starting off we knew that this would be a problem. We knew this because before deciding which song we were actually going to do, we did an audience research and only 2 people said they liked this song. However, when you are working in a group of 4, you have to take into account what everybody likes and you have to give and take factors so everyone will be pleased. Rachel and Roisin were very excited about this song, but myself and Jade wanted to do another song, however, we all made scarifies to be able to work in the group.
- The quality of the filming came up a few and we would like to say thank you to the HD camera for that.
- The 'slide show' came up many of times and a lot of people said we should change this. After discussing its with the rest of the group, we all felt that this was a fair comment and we total agree them. We are planning on changing the shots around so it will feel more like a music video. Along with this, we will be going though the video with a fine tooth brush to make sure that every signal location is on the beat of the music.
- The scenery also came up a lot as they all agreed that we choose a beautiful location and it fitted in well. We were lucky to find this location as it never completely crossed all of our minds.
- The last important comment was the fact that someone said that the season weren't clear. This was an important issue for us as this is our main narrative in our music video. We need this narrative to work out because two of us wanted a narrative based video and two wouldn't more of a random based video. This means that if the narrative didn't work out, then two of our group wouldn't have their vision in the video as much as the other two. To work this problem out, we are going to use some tint over the seasons to make the seasons clearer. Making the seasons clearer ill also solve the problems people had about the video being too random and not having a story.