Media Evaluation

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Music Video

"Setting is a bit 'school like'. Frontman looks beautiful. Ugly bass player. Lip sync bit rough in places. Some good framing. Bass fits with music. Without gaps would be a 7. - 6 / 10"

The setting In the music video look like a school location because its was done in the drama studio. At first we used the e-learning centre but we got told that it doesn’t look like they would film a music video there, so we tried to get the stage which would make more sense when recording a music video but the panto had book it out for the next two weeks so we went for the next best option which was the drama studio and I think it looked better than the e-learning centre. The gaps in the video happened over the weekend because we got a little extra time to do it because the laptop was being really slow and we had to get the bus home. But when we finished all of the editing and rendering then we noticed that it had gaps because the two clips didn’t last as long as we thought and by that time we didn’t have enough time to do it all again considering we already had an extension.

"Setting is simple, could've been better but understandable. Mise en scene with costume and setting works well, fairly simple. Nothing too bright and colourful. Lip syncing is mainly good, couple of times where slightly out of sync but overall good. Timing with keyboard and bass is good. Bass player needs a haircut. Singer needs a shave. Panning is very effective - gives video a bit of an edge. If it weren't for gaps, would be class. - 6 / 10"

The setting again was a last minute thing because of the stage being booked all the time. The only things I thought was wrong with the mise en scene was all the school equipment in the background e.g. chairs and posters. Some of the singing was done without the music because one of the band members had to go early and we had to get his shots done as quickly as we could. I did suggest to the bass player about shaving his head for him but he wasn’t having it, credit to dale with the panning matching the pace of the music.

"Styling / choice of artists is good. Movement of shots work well. Seems to be in sync with instruments. Simple mise-en-scene works well. - 7 / 10"

We tried to keep the costumes all similar and quite smart because it goes with the slow music of the video. Dale did very well to get the number of different shots in the video and we used Mr Fords advice and made the band members connect more by looking at each other during the video. I only really had one note to play on the keyboard but in the original music video the is a piano and a keyboard which in are video make some of my syncing look a little out.

"A good variety of shots. Simplistic idea works well. Could include slightly more action. Characters look the part. - 5 / 10"

We tried to put in a story as well as a performance but it looked better without one and it was much simpler to do for us. The reason why there is not a lot of action because in the original video there is just a performance but if there was more action in it, it would go against the genre of the music and the slowness. We had been told by a couple of people that it looks a proper band because Pats looks like a front man, I look like a keyboard or drummer and harry looks like a guitarist and not a singer.

Digipak

“Though the colours went well together, simple but it works and I like how you have put Pat on the back cover”

I though the same way you can’t go wrong with black and white and Mr Ford was telling me to make simple and I looked at Linkin Park album which I like and it was simple so thought I would couple. And I used Pat on the back cover because his band leader and it would be better for advertisement if I put him on the back cover.

“Liked the picture behind the cd, the background of one of the pictures with the fire escape is a bit out of location”

The picture behind the cd is the two guitars and the keyboard put together on Photoshop like a skull and cross bow, I did this just trying to find something to put on my advert and ended putting it on my digipak behind the CD. The fire escape in the background is in the e-learning which is were we did are first photo shoot and I wanted a picture of all of us separate.

Advert

“Looks there is something missing in it”

I thought the same thing but I was running out of time and I was just trying to fill the space but the main thing I liked about it was the silhouette on the front.

“The silhouette links well with the digipak and video makes it all connect”

I tried to make them all have the same branding so they are all recognisable to the public that they are We Three Fools merchandise. it didn’t take me long to do on Photoshop either which I thought was the best thing about it.