Audience Feedback

Name: Rachel
What you thought of the video: I thought that the video was good, it was very fun and lively and it made me feel happy when watching it, I also like the fact you have a girl singing a boys parts as you don't see that very often and it was nice to see, i also found that many of the parts were like an old 80's videos, previously the group had shown me another video of the cure and this relates a lot to the other videos, so automatically you know it is that band. Some of the scenes are short and choppy for example the piano scenes they didn't last to long this made it look better as it would start to get boring if they went on for a long time. I also liked the penguin scene however I didn't understand why it is there, this could be mislead as something else and other people may find this weird that it is just suddenly there. This is a bad point to the video, the penguin just suddenly appeared and then it was gone until near the end, I also didn't understand the fin at the end, the group later told me that it means finished and it is keeping in sync with the start of the countdown. Points you think we should change : I think you should change some of the effects on the normal screens some of them look to sepia and out of colour and the effects for the four screen was a sudden change, there was no clue that it was going to happen, although it suited the video. (To Rachel’s criticism we have later changed the colouring on the video to make it less dark and lighter) Another critism is that one of the piano sequences is out of sync this could be portrayed as not playing the instruments properly and not following the time, however it suits the mood of the video as it is lively the way the instruments are played is very lively.

What you learned from your audience feedback?

We have learnt that we need to change some of the colourings on the video, we have then found that the video looks better with the colours toned down, this then gave our video a more of an 80's feel with not too much colouring. We have also learnt that we need to keep in time to the music on our instrument solo's as some may have come out of sync when editing and we know that some problems have arisen when doing this so we have tried our best to put it all back to normal but some may have been shorted in that process leaving them to be out of time. However from some of our good critisims we have learned that our video may not have a storyline and may be misleading into this, our storyline is that we are getting ready for a concert having been at another the night before hence the bottles and clothes and shoes all over the floor, we have used the penguin to give more of an happy friendly feel as we want our video to be suitable for all ages, we also want the audience to watch and watch again by placing this hidden meaning in the video. However our older viewers will appreciate that we have tried to stick to The Cure's conventions by keep the 80's feel and not tried to make it any different. We have also learnt to be more careful with planning as our first idea didn't work and we had to keep changing it, this is maybe why some of the storyline is misunderstanding for other people to watch. We have tried to keep consistency throughout and if we had to do this again I think we would make the storyline clearer so that everybody can understand and not just the people who made it.