Aquiring Audience Feedback

I chose to mention my A2 media coursework in a recent video to get audience feedback on it, here's a clip from that video:



So far much of the feedback has been perhaps the video is a little slow, however as mentioned in the feedback this seems to be down more to the personal music preference of the audience.

Magazine Advert: 1st draft Audience feedback

From my research, I found magazine adverts tended to focus on the main singer, a convention often seen in all aspects of  creating the image of a band.

However I chose to challenge the usual convention of showing the entire band and elected to go purely with just the singer, as I felt it was more representative of the style and image I was creating for the band.

The feedback I got from this was that first the colouration of the whole advert was too washed out, as in the video the colours appeared too washed out, this will be a simple fix of increasing the contrast of the video

Also suggested was to include a release date and more information about the album, from looking at real media texts I opted to  include a banner near the bottom with details about the album, as seen in the "The Dirty Youth" magazine advert, this would require me to move the web address and record label logo as well

Music video draft: audience feedback

The audience feedback overall was rather positive, one of the key parts people said was good, was the camera angles and shots.

one of the areas which was brought up, was the colour grading, whilst throughout the majority of the video, the colour grading was correct, giving a slight blue tint, in some places the colours looked very bleached out.

also brought up was how in one location the singer was both lip syncing and keeping his mouth closed when the track had vocals, someone suggested that perhaps to keep it more consistent and either have him lip syncing or not in the same location. I chose to keep this in as it helped to reinforce the subdued feel of the video and song.

Audience Feedback

We had to do a presentation on the ideas we have so far for our music videos, the idea was to get audience feedback on our plans for the music video, focusing on the positives, and also finding the potential flaws in the idea.

As I mentioned before, part of my idea was to have the band performing in a studio, however people said that perhaps this wouldn't fit the rest of the video seeing as it was all outdoors. this idea was changed to instead of having another location with the whole band, having just the singer in an urban location.
Also having just the singer in a scene is a common convention seen in rock music videos, even though I've found rock videos tend to focus on the  band as a whole conventionally, there is still a focus on the singer as an individual over the other band members.

Much of the rest of the feedback was positive, the suggestions that were put forward echoing and reinforcing the ideas and themes I'd already begun to build.