Rough Cut Feedback

In our media class, we all watched each other’s video and gave back feedback on what was liked and what they thought needed to be changed. This has been very beneficial to our group to see what other people like and whether our idea and actual video was liked and enjoyed.

When we got our feedback from the rough cut, people said they liked the narrative involving finding the clothes and the tea party which they thought was unique and interesting. We were very pleased about this as we had spent a while considering what other people would think and whether they’d understand the narrative. The only thing they said would improve the video would be to define who the characters were and what they do as a job; we agreed and thought we needed better footage.

The photographs towards the end of the video were split with our piers liking and disliking it. We took this into consideration and have decided that we would still like to do this to show the madness at the tea party but we would put it into a smaller part.

The location of our tea party and running scenes were thought to be great but our band performance location was dreadful. All members of the group agreed and we knew that we would have to reshoot and film somewhere more adhereing to the conventions of an indie band.

We were told that we had good angles, but perhaps needed a few more to vary to make it more interesting. This also linked with the pace. We were told that we should perhaps make the speed of editing faster to fit in with the pace of the music and adding angles would help this.

We also had a problem with continuity in the tea party. One minute Charlotte, one of the tea party guests, would be wearing a hat and then the next she wasn’t. This was a silly mistake by us, and we agreed to make sure that it would not happen again. Another issue with the tea party was that we didn’t have and tea and just had water, again a silly mistake by us. Also there was an issue with the how tame the tea party, and how it didn’t really fit in with the music. We have decided to remedy this by getting more excitable people to be in the tea party.

We want to completely reshoot the band performance as there were multiple issues. We had a acoustic guitarist and you could see the lyrics on the floor. We hope to improve this a lot by getting organised with musicians and a properly thought out location.

Framing was another thing we were asked to work on. By adding a variety of shots, especially in performance we will be creating a better piece of work. We were also told that we needed more emphasis on the motif of the sunset time-lapse. We are currently considering featuring it in our band performance.

In conclusion, we have all agreed to reshoot everything we have done to get the best out of it and have taken on these criticism and hope to remedy them with the final shoot.