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Feedback from Peers

After showing my Peers the first draft of my music video, I asked them for some feedback on it, to understand how to improve, and what work well. The questions that I asked to my classmates were:

The feedback is colour co-ordinated, to the people who left comments.

What do you think I should put between clips? - This is because I knew that the video was relatively one dimensional and I wanted some outside input to see what people would like.

Feedback:

Perhaps invert the colours every now and again to add pace and an element of changing.

You could add some different colours to break up the video as I feel the black and white can become too similar at certain points of the video.

I don’t think the video completely needs colour as the music is dramatic and what you’ve done is so different and interesting; however the clips are quite slow so you might want to speed up parts of it.

I believe that clips put in-between shots could have some form of you painting swirls on paper and different types of patterns to break up the fact that its just a women being painted or finding herself.

I think the black and white worked well throughout the video, maybe some other shapes could be presented in the middle of clips to relate to shapes being created.

-This feedback is really helpful because I was finding it difficult, thinking of other visuals to include in the music video.

What shots do and do not work? - I asked this question, because I wanted to know what there was too much of or too little of. Also, to see if there were some shots which people found not as aesthetically pleasing as others.

Feedback:

I really like the progression of close ups from feet to face, particularly the close ups of hands and face! The formation of the person through paint is very clever

I like the shot at the end of the video, I think it’s a good way of ending the video as all the close ups used feel like they have been leading up to us seeing the character

The shots of her face and hair are my favourites and its good how you slowly built the video up using different shots of her body. The shots of her legs go on for a long time and are a bit hard to read at first.

I really like the way it shows this woman finding herself, however the shots do need to be broken up with some sort of different pattern. Maybe if you use water droplets dripping into some water? 

The shots which show the paint slowly being applied look really great especially with the effect added, the shots which could potentially not work so well I think would be the ones which do not show the patterns as well or are a little too long

-I like this feedback because it reassures me that the idea of the music video is a good one, with the positive comments. Also, the constructive criticism really helps to develop ideas, and understand what audiences want from a music video.

Do you think there should be a direct relationship between the music and the visuals? - I asked this to see if the audience liked the direction that the music video was headed, or whether I should reconsider the idea behind the music video.

Feedback:

I don’t think so, I like the concept element of it, it’s very striking and interesting to watch unfold. Works well with the music.

I don’t think there needs to be a direct relationship, the visuals work very well with the song and its different to other videos which I may expect to see for a song like this (performance)

I don’t think it needs to at all, the idea is so unique it completely captured me and it already fits the music well.

I don’t believe there should need to be a relationship between the visuals and lyrics however I believe the music does connect with the visuals! When listening to the music I feel a sense of power and this song shows this woman finding herself so I think it works really well!

I think the tribal sounding drum style works well with the painting idea, however I do not feel it needs to relate directly with the music and visuals as it is a very conceptual idea

-Again, this feedback lets me know what audiences like to see in music videos.

How would you improve this music video? - The final question was a broad one, just to get the audience feedback, and how they feel about the music video.

Changing paces – shot on action etc. Also less focus on the feet in the beginning as it takes a while to build up to the face and you wonder whether it’s going to be the bottom half of the body for the whole time.

I feel the video could be improved by using more than one actor and cutting between the two, you could match the cutting of the scenes to the beat of the music

I agree with first comment – less time spent on feet/legs

I feel as if there is too much time spent on the first section of the video showing legs and feet. You need to hurry that section and get to the more interesting parts of the body.

There could maybe be more pace and matching to the music pace but the video works well in relation to the music
-This feedback allows the peers who left comments to have an input to the music video, it also helps me know what I need to do to improve. 

I believe that the feedback that I have received on my first draft music video is really helpful. I thought that all of the comments were helpful and I will definitely act upon the comments left.

This task has been really helpful, and I believe it will be a really influential step, in the process of creating my music video.