SR: AUDIENCE FEEDBACK #11: Rough Cut 15

This is some audience feedback that we got for our rough cut 15. The video was said to be pretty much done and our teacher argued that all that still needs to be looked into is the fast paced sequence. Also, another student said that in the fast paced sequence one shot was standing out too much, which might be because of the difference in lighting of the dark performance and the bright narrative.

SR: Reflection on Narrative Shoot #3

Kristian and I filmed some more narrative scenes, after having gotten audience feedback that our narrative was a bit thin, because we didn't have enough scenes of our two character's so that our audience could get to know them. 

Overall it went really well, we wanted to include some more scenes of them being happy together, which we did by filming some scenes of them cooking together and smearing cream on each other's faces. It was quite hard to film, because the actor's autmatically moved out of frame, which meant that we had to film 3 scenes in total and they had  but in the end we managed.

Also, we wanted to film some scenes, where our female protagonist burns the pictures of her and her "boyfriend", because we thought that the slap scenes weren't enough, since it is only a few seconds long and we wanted there to be more emphasis on the breaking up and the negative side of their relationship, since we thought it would also link better with the dark metal genre.

However, one problem that we experienced was that we were not able to film the burning pictures  and the cooking scenes at the same day, because it became dark quite early and we had to film the footage of the burning pictures outside, so that our female protagonist could throw them onto the concrete. Also, we had to print out the pictures first, which took some time.

For the polaroid pictures, we asked our two actors to take some selfies of themselves with out phone after, which we printed them out as the sterotypical polaroid picture. We chose polaroids because we would be able to attract a young female audience, due to the resurgance of polaroid pictures lately. 

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK #10: Throne Rough Cut 14

This is some feedback we got for the rough cut 14 from our teacher. If these are done, then the next one should be the final cut. 

remove flickering effect on the fast paced sequence

1.16 the fist seems a bit too much, try to layer with something else where he is not singing

1.20 try and put the cream fight in slow-mo and keep the pool shot layered until 1.26 

1.35 reverse the shot of the singer jumping and the singer running 

1.44 cross-cut the shot of the layered guitarist

Audience Feedback 9: Throne Rough Cut 10

Today, we had a special session in school, where we were able to show our newest rough cut to our teacher. I showed my latest version, which is rough cut 10 and got the following feedback:

• Add some narrative scenes into the fast paced sequence in the middle of the track when the beat drops 
• The layering of the band member in the happy couple scene at 1.15 minutes looks of, try to use a green screen shot instead of the performance shot from the woods for both layering shots
• The protagonist should fall into the pool at 1.20 instead of 1.19 so that it is 100% cut to the beat
• 1.27 minute when he beats his arm in the air should not come back up again during the same shot maybe later by splitting up the pool scene 
• 1.38 layering behind the guy maybe band or narrative/ pool shot?
• 1.41 again layering something different e.g. pool shot
• 1.33 different shot the second time he stands with arms looking like cross e.g. pool OR slow-mo running
• 2.09 balloons - take away balloons and put in pool shot
• use the water take more than once in the slow sequence
• dream effect is too much maybe try sepia/black white
• connotation he is drowning he is dying and he is drowning in his own memories
• more bass shot of drums
• crosscutting of drum shots

Audience Feedback 8: Throne Rough Cut 9

This is some audience feedback that we got for out rough cut 9. It was posted on March 3rd, but we asked the Year 10 students to give us feedback the Friday the week after again, because it is good practice for them as well moving on to their IGCSE's.

Audience Feedback 6: Throne Rough Cut 6

This is some audience feedback that I got from 2 year 12 students. One of them was Emilie who is the female protagonist, which was very interesting since I wanted to hear what she thought of the result of all of the hours spent on filming.

SR: Audience Feedback 7:Throne Rough Cut 9

For this particular draft we got feedback from several Year10 students, which you can see in the video below and we also got one of the Y13 students to look at the video (one of the band members/guitarist, to be exact) who saw the video for the first time.



These are some of the points they mentioned:

• Age range 15/16-19/20
• more effects that are darker 
• more close-ups of the singer are needed
• preferred reading anchored very well (Stuart Hall) 
• secondary audience could be younger and the color would make the video appeal to both genders
• Achieves verisimiltude because of the tattoos and the good lip-syncing  
• Different colors are good because it gives a good contrast (binary opposition) to the darkness
• clearer narrative - more couple shots 
• Achieved verisimilitude through costumes of the band (matching clothes)
• It was interesting during the entire video so I wanted to keep watching. 
• Good special effects - Dream, made it look like a memory

Year 13 student gave the following feedback:

• music always synced well with the video 
• When the beat dropped the footage went a bit faster, which signified the drop well/ when the song went slower the editing was past a bit slower 
• good narrative footage, well played by the actors 
• green screen was good, the background was really good with the colors because we put color powder/ink to life by using a green screen instead. 
• Good use of technology. 
• Overall really good video. 

Audience Feedback 6: Throne Rough Cut 6

This is some audience feedback that I got from 2 year 12 students. One of them was Emilie who is the female protagonist, which was very interesting since I wanted to hear what she thought of the result of all of the hours spent on filming.

YouTube Feedback 5: Rough Cut 4

We got some feedback on our video "Throne Rough Cut 1 Draft 4" from some students in our class.

Summarize what there points where:

•  Use more special effects, e.g. color correction
• Improve lighting
• make sure lip-syncing is good for ever shot

SR: Audience Feedback 4: Rough Cut 4

This is some of the audience feedback we got from our teacher and our fellow year 13 Media students.



The points our teacher addressed included:

• return to shots more often
• some occasions where it cuts well to the beat - needs a few more
• impact points where it is not visually representive
• pool scenes are a bit all over the place should be placed better
• experiment more with special effects
• more colorpowder scenes because they look good
• try to use color flicker effect/ flicker effect
• color correction to enhance the color
• more narrative: cooking scenes or scenes where the couple sit on a swing set 

SR: Audience Feedback 3: Throne Rough Cut 4

This is some other audience feedback that we got from our Y10's in the school. It was of good use for us as well as a good preparation for them starting Year 11 in September.

Some main points that they mentioned include:

• Too many still tri-pod shots
• Good choice of actors
• Mainly they argued that the audience could be between 16-23
• Bad lip sync
• Flashback colour effect "Dream" makes it look unreaslistic
• Good Drumming and Guitar
• Colour powder was good at the speed it was at
• Break up and fight was easy to determine but other narrative wasn't
• Convincing
• Good shot variety
• good locations
• convincing actors
• looked real 

SR: Audience Feedback 2: Throne Rough Cut 3

This is the audience feedback that we got after having posted our 3rd draft of rough cut 1that I edited. Our audience feedback will weekly help us to reflect on what we can do better. Some of the negative points mentioned include: 

• Less running sequence
• More pool scenes 
• Clearer narrative
• More color powder because the effect looked good 
• Work with color correction

SR: Audience Feedback #1: Follow You

This is the first audience feedback that we got for our first draft of Follow You, it is only a 40 second clip and so the audience couldn't give that much feedback and said that the narrative wasn't clear yet.
UPDATE: Our audience feedback was also one of the reason's why we decided to change our track and idea. Some audience, including ourselves, didn't like the big difference in colour between the depressing narrative and the colorful performance.