Audience Feedback on YouTube

Whilst receiving audience feedback we have always been a bit judgemental because the people are our friends, so we feel that they would praise our video even if they thought we should change some of it. So we was shocked and pleased when we received audience feedback on our YouTube account 'domemjesskayla', we do not know the person who commented on our final version of our music video which made us feel happy with our work. The user said that our video was "Excellent, very talented, great video, more realistic than the original!! xx", this makes us very proud of our work as this user said that it was better than the original Teenage Dream video, which was directed by Yoann Lemoine, who is a professional director.

Underneath is a screen shot of the page and the comment. (Click to enlarge the screen shots)

Music Video Screening at our School

Our media teachers organised a screening of AS film opening and A2 music videos in our school hall, they invited both A level years and prospective year 11 students were also invited to the event. We were allowed to invite our parents and our friends from outside of school, we found this beneficial as we were able to get our friends audience feedback.

In our media group I was given the opportunity to introduce our music video, which was very nerve wrecking because a lot of people turned up to the screening. This was the introd

uction that I said " The audience were given sheets of paper on which they could give feedback abo

ut each groups music video. The questions on the sheet were: We created our music video to Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. After many narrative

changes we finally decided to create a performance based video. in our music video we wanted to portray time and how quickly youth grow up. The female protagonist is shown from childhood to early stages of adulthood. "

After the screening the were able to get audience feedback, in the video corners that was set up for us. We asked a series of open questions such as:

1) What did you like about our music video? Why?

2) Was the idea of time expressed well?

3) Did you like our different locations? Why?

4) What was your favourite part of our music video? Why?

This is a Prezi that I made of the feedback that we got back from our screening.

Music Video Screening on Prezi

Editing Draft (Two)

In our second edited draft we have tried to edit more on the beat and we have tried to make the audience recognise our artist by having more shots of our performer singing. In our latest draft we loved that the lyrics conformed with a shot in our video for example in the shot for "Just love" we had our artist moving a heart shape balloon which says 'I Love You', this makes a connection between the performer and the audience. We all liked the three cut away shots for "We", "Can", "Dance" as it makes the footage more on beat. When we asked our class what there favourite part was in our music video they said the seventeen photographs in the beginning, because they liked the editing technique. During the chorus we used fast pace editing with different shots of the artist in different location and the transvestite scenes. However, when I showed my mother our recent draft she thought the transvestite scenes were the performer, so we need to improve on that. We need to make our music video more fast pace because it is a pop music video. Also, we came to the realisation that we used the same shots for a long period of time for example, the artist performing in front of the black background is used in the beginning for twelve seconds and we do a shot reverse shot with the same performance. We have used many of the same performing shots so we have decided to film more performance to add interest in our music video, as it will not be so repetitive.

Below is our recent draft to our music video.