Rough Cut Feedback

Today we showed our media class our rough cut video and handed them all questionnaires which we had made in order to find out what needs to be improved to get a better grade in the final cut. Bellow are all the responses we gathered:








General findings from this research reveled that the band performance was noticeably out of sync with the music at times so we will need to re-film this in order to get enough shots for this to work  also the lead singer needs to sing louder in certain parts to match that of the singer in the song's voice. As well the band members where critisised for looking monotone in places despite this being a deliberate idea to fit into this typical indie stereotype like artists such as The XX. Despite these comments we will include more close shots of the other two band members to get a personality across to the audience that they felt they have missed.

Many also said that we need to have more narrative than performance to help with any confusion about our plot so we will re-film parts we have already and make them more clean cut and clear as well as film new bits we planned originally but didn't have time to do for the rough cut such as shouting at cars from a bridge. By filming more narrative and upping the ratio, this will enable us to have faster cuts which is another point many of out target audience said they wanted to see. They will also get to see more rebellious action from the characters which is what they wanted also.

We are also wanting to re-film some of the starting shots at the cafe because in places Reece (the male character) looks like he is in darkness because the camera was on the wrong setting when we first began to film and also we experimented by filming into the natural light (the window being behind Reece) to see if it worked but our audience didn't think it did.

A few people have also mentioned the possible need for a different singer than in the narrative, as a group we disagree because of our indie genre the videos are typically lower budget and the artist's often appear in the narrative as a way of helping their fans get to know them in a form of art as appose to not having any involvement in the narrative at all. Examples of  indie artists who are in the performance and the narrative are: Hurts, Marina and the Diamonds, Peace,  Florence and the Machine etc.