Audience feedback

To create the best film possible we have had people who are experienced in Media studies and have done the exact same stuff as we have to do now come in to the college to look at how we were doing and tell us what we could to to improve what we have got so far. When we had them in we had just finished editing together some of the footage that we had been out to get so this would give them a just of our plan of action and how we are going to tackle the video.

When we first showed them what we had gotten together for the beginning sequence of the clip they seemed pleased with how well we had planned everything and that we kind of had an idea of what we were going to do. Instead of listing all of the good points and bad points we have got the pair to create a table which shows all of the good points and bad points of what we had already done and what we were planning to do.

From doing this I have been able to learn a lot from the ex-pupils from our school. They have given us an insight on what people in the future will be looking for and how we can adapt in these early stages. By getting this audience feedback we have taken it in with great pleasure and made a few changes to the narrative piece behind the music video. For example we will have only used one camera for the shots of our artist as we do not want different lighting approaches in the video. We will also be looking at, when in different stages of the music video making the actors look more as if he is from this sort of genre with the clothing and the props.

Tei Daratsa - Lost my way (lyrics)

Remember when we used to speak

It’s been long since we did

And it’s cold without you here

So come back to me

I said I’ll treat you right

I’ll be here with open arms tonight

And I’ll show you the light

And I’ll hold you tight

I don’t think I can make it past tomorrow

Without you beside me

I’m all alone

On my own

The wind blows so slow

Now you’ve gone away

Can’t find a way back home

And I’ve lost my way

Mmm oh

I must have been out of my mind

To think that you were mine

Cos’ you were one of a kind

But your heart I cannot find

And I said I’ll treat you right

I’ll be here with open arms tonight

To show you the light

And I’ll hold you tight

I don’t think I can make it past tomorrow without you beside me

I’m all alone on my own

The wind blows so slow

Now you’ve gone away

Can’t find a way back home

And I’ve lost my way

Oh

Mmm oh

I’ve lost my way

I’ve lost my way

In the lyrics you can tell a lot from the song and what its meant to portray, we have tried to convey the ideas of the song through our music video in many different ways. The song seems to be as if he has lost a girl in his wrong doing and now he wants here back. In the music videos narrative section we have tried to make the actor in the music video look as if he is a very upset young boy. We try to make the actor look as if he had been left by having him make facial expressions that will have people giving him sympathy.

We have also tried to make it look as if he is very uncaring over his appearance by having him just wake up, shove his clothes on and then go out in the morning without showering or getting ready. When the song starts to pick up we will have the narrative flashing back to times when the couple were together and they were happy. This will be one the penultimate clip as it will be the one that lets people know that he is actually missing the girl and that they used to have good times together as. In the beginning of the music video we just get to see an angry man with no purpose, this will hopefully make people want to know why hes angry and carry on watching and then when the centre of the song hits we will havr the flashbacks. 

I believe that by doing this we have been able to realise that we will need to link the narrative a bit more to the lyrics of the video so that it all fits together well.  By doing so we will be able to grap peoples attention and therefore keep them interested in the music video from the beginning. By doing this whilst were in the midst of  starting our editing it will help us to look at getting more footage that relates to the lyrics.

Questionnaire

We have created a questionnaire to find out what people think about Music Videos. In the questionnaire we have a wide variety of questions that will find out a lot of different things to do with music videos, by doing this we will be able to find out what different people think about different music videos and how they find there music videos.

Some of the interesting results of which we found were to do with the questionnaire was that every single person that we asked likes to watch the music video of the song they're listening to. This shows us the importance of a music video and that we will need to make it go with the song as it is important to do so. The next part of the questionnaire that we found to be interesting was where we asked the question 'Do you enjoy Music videos with special effects?' We found that the majority of our voters said no, this was intriguing to us as we would have thought in this modern day and age most people like seeing special effects incorporated into the videos to add more effect to the emotions they are trying to convey. After we got our results from our questionnaire we asked some of the people we handed them out too why they didn't like special effects and most of the people said that it was because they can relate to the videos more if they are done just with the camera and editing. This will be good for our video because it will also be done like this.

Another piece of information that we picked up from these questionnaires is that people like serious videos a lot more than funny videos, I can only imagine this is because funny videos can become a bit cringey if you can not relate whereas a serious video is usually made to be easily related too. Our video is going to be made to look quite serious as he has just gone through quite a serious break-up this will hopefully be made to look easily related too.

The final part of the questionnaire that we found very interesting was to do with what happens within the music video, we asked whether people enjoy music videos that have more of the band, the concept or the narrrative or all three. The most of the votes with all three of the options, this will be purely because a lot of people like to see the band and what the song is all about.

By doing this I have been able to find a lot of things out about the audiences that we were targetting, after looking through all of there answers we will be looking to cater for all of the majority voters. We have already been doing a lot of the stuf of which they asked for so there wont be much of a change happenning but we will be able to please more people after doing this questionnaire.

Audience Research