Just another Coombe Media group...

In the lesson today the class watched our video and made comments on the areas which they liked and they thought worked well and also made note of the things they didn't like, and felt could have been improved. Examples of responses to our video included:

"I liked it when she says 'Sunk so low" the representation of the lyrics through the action of her sitting down worked well"
"The mixes using the spinning parasol were in keeping with the genre"
"The framing of shots is beautiful especially the lying on leaves shot and the editing of the two close ups on opposite sides of the frame as if she is singing to herself"
"I was a little confused over the flashback sequence and why no-one was in the church"
- Ms Hafenrichter

A lot of the positive feedback was on commenting on the choice of costume, and people thought that our edits were in keeping with the pace of the song, we noticed that a lot of people seemed to like the 'spinning shot' as they felt that is suited the video and fitted really well.
The choice of the location was also one of the areas which recieved a lot of positive feedback, as well as the mise-en-scene, especially the colours of some of the particular shots such as the ones including the leaves, as they felt the colours matched the song.

There were mixed views when considering the casting, some people felt that she suited the role, however others believed she did not necissarily suit the role of the artist. Another suggestion which we had from our feedback was to put some more work into the make-up used on the artist, this is so that she is able to be as attractive as possible, and as a result, want to watch the video more and more.
One comment which came up was that they felt that there could have been more narrative used in the video.Despite the fact that we did include a narrative in the video, feedback suggested that it wasn't always that easy to follow, and so if we haad put some more thought into imporving our narrative we may have been able to create our music video with some more narrative included in it.
Although comments on the choice of location were fairly positive, people felt that we could have used more lighting inside the house, as the picture looked a bit grainy, a problem which we could have avoided if we had used the lighting kit available.

However, overall there was a lot of positive feedback, as well as negative feedback, which we will take on board and consider in detail when we analyse our video and see how we could have imporved it, as well as what we managed to do well while making our music video.

- Sarah Evans