Audience Feedback Evaluation

Based on the analysis of your audience feedback, is there a consensus on how effective your work is? Do the replies pick out similar things to comment on? Do you accept the comments of your audience or would you want to challenge them?

Throughout my audience feedback people commented on a well chosen use black & white, continuing on the narrative, leaving the 'look' at the end a little bit long, shots of eyes, water and fingers. This was all brilliant news as these are all the things I set out to try and show in the first place in order to achieve an amotive response from the audience and when not watching with a critical perspective these factors add up to draw out an emotional response. I accept all the Comments made about my film. I know where I went wrong and would love to do it again without making the same mistake i.e. shaky shots, not enough footage.

If you were able to re-visit your work and develop it further which aspects would you focus on the improve the piece. Try and explain why you would make the changes.

Wider variety of shots of the couple. More of the girl after the attack. More Stable shots. More shots of the girl with the boy on the side. More depth of field shots.

Music Video - Final Cut

DigiPack

For my CD Cover design I will hand draw the design the scan it into photoshop to add colours to it and refine any lose ends and also make it looks sharper and add contrast to make it look like it wasnt jsut drawn on a piece of paper then cut out and put in the CD case.


(Original Album Cover for the Album the song is from, above.)









The Advertisement will probably have a smaller version of the digipack in the corner but the main will probably be a high-quality picture blending into a black background with maybe some white stripes braking it up.

Movement

Looking into sad/moving media texts and they tend to use a lot of close up shots of eyes, mouths, fingers, quivering lips, close-up shots of a tear moving very slowly down the face, downwards looking and very smooth shots, however the edit is still quickly cut.
I'm going to include these shots as I feel they're important in trying to evoke an emotional response from the audience.
Also I think it could be good to include shots of water related scenes i.e rain, overflowing gutters, dripping, bleak taps and still water.
The sequences of water shots could come before the quick shots of the black and white background story of the guy remembering what he'd done. The video would start with a fading in shot of the guy playing the piano, then we would follow this as the main narrative and this would be them man who performs, putting a lot of energy and passion into this song and as it comes back down we see his quivering fingers on the piano keys, and soft rolling tears down his cheeks. To his left is a window with rain splashing down the glass. On key chord changes it would go the the flashbacks of him and his girlfriend. The next set of flashbacks would be her cheating on him. The next set would be him attacking her. The next set would be him realising what he had done. After each flashback his face will clench up in regret. Also whilst the girl is singing at the start of the song we see her sitting in the dark and we will see the quivering fingers and so on with her aswell. A close up shot of a detail of some blood on her hand will be seen and at the end of the song her hand will appear on the guys shoulders with the same detail, then he looks at it, then as he turns round expecting to see her she is gone.

I can never seem to be able to get the actors on time or reliably and so I am going to do something simpler with a different song which I hope will draw a more emotional response from the audience as apposed to just something to watch with the video. This does mean using a different song which will be 9 Crimes by Damien Rice. It's a similar pace/genre to Atmosphere however the lyrics are around a different topic. I read into them as a woman cheating on her boyfriend and him taking harsh revenge and then seriously regretting it afterwards. For this song I will subtly follow the lyrics, as I think, for this piece, it will achieve a better response.

Lyrics:


Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I'd do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It's the wrong time
For somebody new
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse

Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright with you?
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright
With you?

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I'd do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be cheating on you
It's the wrong time
She's pulling me through
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse

Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright with you?
If you dont shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright with you?
If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright
Is that alright with you?

Is that alright with you?
If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright with you?
If you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright with you?
If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright
Is that alright with you?

Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright with you?

No...

How did your research into audience contribute to your production work at both As and A2?

How did your research into audience contribute to your production work at both AS and A2?

Research into my target audience contributed to my AS and A2 Level Production work in various ways.
At AS my target audience was around the same as me, i.e. 16-21, Student, Music Fan/Musician. Obviously I know what I like and how I like to see things, but I thought it important to grasp a greater understanding of how others percieve media and film. So I Conducted a Video Questionaire, interviewing people on what they picked up on and liked about the opening of films. It was also an interesting way to determine how important the opening of a film actually is to a person not sutdying Media, to see if it made as much of an impact on them as the rest of the film all together or at all. The Overall outcome of my research was that, generally speaking, the opening of a film isn't overly important apart from jsut settling down the audience itno what they are about to watch. Unless, of course, the opening of a film makes very good sense after having watched the film the whole way through, such as in Pulp Fiction. This also made me udnerstand that jsut seeing a film opening on it's own could not realy make for a fantastic film opening with out becoming more of a trailer, especially if the film opening is only 2 minutes. It would have to have an incredible story line laid down within just 2 minutes to keep you really hooked on the film. Most film openings are just an interesting way of telling you which actors are in it, who directed and produced it and a few other key production team members' names, all while having a design/theme relative to the film opening.
This helped me produce my piece with as I then understood that in the very first two minutes of the film I didn't have to give away any story, or show any of the characters, I could actually start in a montage style relative to the rest of the film's genre/theme and it would work well as the film opening (such as in Napoleon Dynamite). Looking back however I would have liked to have had a couple more minutes for my film opening so my audience could have understood it a bit better. If I had had a couple more minutes I would have started into the story line. I think really a film opening should be the first 4/5minutes, honestly I think a 2 minute film opening ,even being done at AS Level, is not very realistic.
So my research contributed to my final production by enforcing my idea that I could do a montage style opening aslong as it was themed to the film's overall story/genre but that it would have been better to have more time to open the story a little bit.

At A2 level my Audience Research has helped contribute to my music video planning in various ways. From a few short questionaires I have learnt that audiences tend to like faster editing, something away from the lyrics that is changes through te video, so as to keep them interested the whole way through also that the band does not have to be in the music video at all. Also though that a music video of the band playing the song live at an interesting venue with an new event taking place at some point through out is also enough to keep a person watching. The Audience for my piece is around 17/27, will know a bit more about music than an average person and is not keen on chart music also they will be slightly artistic or appreciate art.

Original Video for Atmosphere

The original was released with the re-release of the song in 1988 and was directed by Anton Corbijn.

Joy Division - Atmosphere from Wes Dorris on Vimeo.

In this video there are men in gowns across a strange landscape moving things around, including large canvas prints of famous pictures of Joy Division and Ian Curtis. It would be good to use a small part of this, in a differnt way, in my video. Probably a shot of a field or something equally obscure where the picture is resting on the floor and there are men in the same gowns who appear to be arguing over a map between them, i.e. they're lost (another emotion frequently put accross in Ian's songs).

I think my video is going to be alot different to the original which is a good thing in my mind.