Feedback

So far we have fully done one minute ten seconds of our music video. We got some feedback from the rest of the group on what we've done so far after we showed them the video. Most things they spotted and wanted to see a bit differently were things we agreed with.

What was first said was the lighting was really good. Especially the shots of Gideon in a spotlight. Also the variety of shots were good as there were many in the first minute. This image below is of the class watching what we have done so far.

The following things are what we need to improve on:
 Even though the use of performance shots were good, they need to be mixed up so that were not watching the same thing for too long for it to get boring.
The short clips of the champagne bottle and glass could be alot better as there is a plug socket in the background which distracts us. The subject isn't very clear either.
We added some text at the end of the one minute saying 'They Know' at the same time as the music, we weren't sure about this ourselves and neither were the rest of the people we got feedback from. It either needs different transitions and colours, or we shouldn't use it at all.
The split screen was a good idea but could be much more effective rather than the two different shots split.
How we are going to make these things better:
To improve the effectiveness of the variety of shots, we are going to move the clips around showing urban areas to stage performances without them being all together and long. Making them shorter clips will also meet the conventions of the Hip Hop genre.
The champagne nd glass shots are already poor. We are going to refilm this clip using a small studio set up so that there is no background clutter. This will then look more professional and meet the conventions of our chosen genre alot more.
The text we added to match the lyrics did not work like we wanted it to. However we are going to play about with the different transitions and effects you can put on the text to make this look more professional. If this still doesn't work, we won't include any text if we can not pull it off.
The split screen at the begining is quite amateur at the moment. We are hoping to put three clips in a split screen, pausing each of them as he sings a line, so that eventually they're all paused to move on to the next clip.

This feedback we got from the rest of the group was very useful an we hope to get feedback again when we think we're almost done.