Evaluation Question 3:What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

After we received feedback from the viewing audience, we heard that we originally had some changes to make.  The main criticism with the video was that the background was bland and uninteresting, as there was none, when given the chance to re-edit the video we placed motion paths and effects into the background in order to give it a bit of interest, therefore it wouldn’t be black and dull. Also, after the audience had viewed the video, there were comments that the green screen chroma keying would need to be edited in order to restore faces and arms that were missing. (Show clip of edited guitar player without grain or missing limbs).

 

After the keying had been changed and some effects had been added into the background, we then settled with the video and had some more feedback given to us.  Our original audience had noticed that the effects and editing had been tightened up which was a welcome change in the feedback. The audience were aware of the character motivations and narrative of the video due to us not focusing too much on this issue, we wanted to centre around more of a band performance due to us wanting to stick to the main conventions of the genre.  People understood that the music listened to in this genre is normally referred to as angry music and people feel angrier listening to this genre than to say an easy listening song, so we decided to include some sort of injustice within the legal system, in this case it would be some sort of hate crime between the males and females (Show clips of both a male and female from the video).

 

 The audience, which the video was viewed by, very easily understood this the band performance was enjoyed by the class due to the song not being too old or hated by the majority of the viewers. After the second viewing of the video there were still some minor fuzzes on the green screen to fix but other than that it was agreed the effects where put in helped the video appeal more and reach out more.  Finally, after all of the little annoying green screen problems had been edited we where left with an acceptable chroma key, we learned that we had stayed true to the genre as well as making a short, understandable narrative.