Music Video Feedback

I had members of my class watch my draft music video and this is some of the feedback they gave my video:

Laura listed: - lighting needs sorting, band shots are a bit shadowy.
                      - actors work really well and costume looks good.
                      - casual style of shot works well/collage type video works for song

Mae listed: - Some of the lighting needs sorting
                    - should only be one singer, bit random. Having the shy boy (she means Matt on Bass              Guitar) for a second of it.

Alex wrote: "Some of the drumming and singing look shy. Clips are sometimes really random not linking anything. Really like the casual shots in town in front of wall and skating.

Balpreet listed: - good shots used especially close ups
                           - Narrative slow
                           - Boys having fun
                           - lip syncing not on time
                           - drummer seems upset?

Jack wrote: Good miming, nice locations, clothes fit, nice banter, more shots to finish

These are some feedback points I listed from my teacher:
- Look at the framing of shots
- Only half done but can see concept being formed
- Rainbow t-shirt (Tie dye on Danny the singer) key
- Keyboard prominate in video, add more shots   

Digipak & Advert Feedback

I had members of my class openly view my digipak and advert and this is the feedback that I received:

Alex wrote: "I like the front cover and advert, but doesn't really stand out just with black and white"

Jack listed: - Good professional photos

                  - Realistic Reviews

                  - Modern advertising

                  - Nice theme

                  - Cool Font

                  - Better cutting out needed

                  - Move font on disc

Laura wrote: "Advert looks current and professional and matches well with Digipak. Some editing of photos on digipak could be improved."

Vish wrote: "The digipak looks like a whole package. Black and white works well and is simplistic."

An Un-Named person: "Good use of font and text layout. Definite grayscale theme. Edges need smoothing on advert models - looks jagged."

Mid-Editing Feedback

At a first look at at the first minute of the video I have recieved some feedback that when I conduct my re-takes. the main point that my teacher stressed was that they are suppose to be a 4 person band yet even in the first minute that there lots of separate shots with selective band members. This is probably down to the fact that on the main filming day the drummer, Matt Rogers, was only able to join us for the band shots so there no other shots of that day with him in. These are some examples of selective band member shots I found already

Digipak & Advert Feedback

The first feedback point was regarding my digipak that I had posted it the wrong way around and that when it came to my final digipak that it needs flipping.

Also, my teacher noted that she believes there is some confusion with the images over the genre of the band. Stating that the image with the 4 way cut of there faces looks more like a pop music album making them more like a boy band and the bottom left image that I used of the singer of Bombay Bicycle Club with the guitar looks like a full on rock album which makes a contrast.

Next, they noted that I should remove the beige colour and simply make the album black and white which to be honest I agree with.

Overall, my teachers awarded it 5/10 making it a high level 2

In regards to my advert, my teachers said they liked the idea behind the images of the band and that it had good potential.

However, they did criticise the sizes used for the texts bellow the mage and said that I need to reconsider and look at making them more to scale and try incorporate the rule of thirds more.

Overall, my teachers awarded my advert 5/10 which also makes it a high level 2

Animoto Pitch Feedback

After presenting my animoto pitch to one of my teachers this is someone of the feedback that she had that we discussed:

Firstly, in my pitch I included the idea that I wanted some shots of live performance from my band which is an ok idea. But when asked about it I had little idea of where I would film it or what instruments I would borrow. So I think I need to make sure I have a clearer idea of the aspects involved in live performance.

Secondly, when discussing my concept of filming it throughout the day I elaborated on the idea of the music video appearing that the events of it are happening throughout a day. This would work throughout a day by filming at differrent times of natural brightness to create the effect of different times.

Also, my teacher expressed a concern that even though my ideas could work that maybe I dont yet have enough content for my video. Although I have considered it, I have figured I will address this when I draw my storyboard so that I have a better idea of how much content I actually have     

Band Name Decision

I have decided to name my band 'Lego Monkeys'. After I had to rule out two of my band name ideas, one of which I wanted as my band name, due to the language used in them being innapropriate. In my mind it came down to 'Scrapheap Mojo' and 'Lego Monkeys' and after breifly asking a few members of my class ,including my teacher, Lego Monkeys generally seemed to have a better perception so I have decided to use it 

Presentation Feedback

After we did our pitches from Animoto, we waited for people to ask us about the video. Aswell as the animoto we also gave a small introduction on our video so we can enable the audience to understand it better. Firstly, we did not get asked any questions which is a good thing as it meant everyone understood what we doing well. We were then asked questions by the teacher only about how we would portray the athletes at the end reaching their goal. This got us thinking about it but we explained how we could change this fact and be unsure about the athletes becoming professional but having children who can be playing the sport and then it will show them as teenagers and them training hard. This was the main feedback that caused concern for our group but we are making decisions as a team to go through this.