Teacher/Audience Feedback

We have received feedback from our teachers, both giving us positive feedback about our idea and stating that they liked the “very abstract ideas which are synchronous with the lyrics". Another positive comment we were given was "I can't wait to see the stop motion and psychedelic outlook". Both of our teachers highlighted important areas in which to create a product that would be to the best of our abilities. They pointed out how to reach the higher section of the mark scheme and gave us helpful advice, such as suggesting the importance of using editing techniques to ensure that the meaning is clear to our audience. Our music video will heavily rely on the editing aspect in order to portray and deliver the message. Another piece of helpful advice that we received was the importance of the mise-en-scene which made us realise that this would emphasise our meaning further. We were given some targets from our teachers to help to improve our product, one of which was to look into the copyright of the cartoon clips that we are going to insert into our music video; we did some research into who the cartoons belonged to. We managed to find an email address but are still waiting for a response. Another target that we were given was to try and include more varied amounts of shot types. We took all of our targets positively and have now added different and more interesting shots and camera angles than we had before. These changes should hopefully have a positive effect on the outcome of our music video.  

We also received feedback from other media students in our class where we pitched our idea to another group and they then gave us their thoughts on our product. We received a very positive response to our idea. One of our classmates, Sam, said: "we have clear research of the lyrics and themes". This was a positive response as we knew the importance of the audience being able to understand our product and so this showed that it was portrayed clearly. Luke said: "It’s really good how we have taken our project from AS and expanded on some of the effects and ideas we had for our thriller opening". This made our group remember the careful choices of the mise-en-scene involved that helped to make the girl character look like a successful student.  Sam also said: "The song choice brings out the emotion of life". We were hoping for this response as the audience should be able to recognise the highs and lows of life and what paths we can follow, which is the theme of our product. We plan on representing this in our video by using the same actor to play both character roles, so the audience can see the two very different paths of life. The only negative piece of feedback we received from the other group was that we needed to expand and give more of a variety of shots.