A2 ADVANCED PORTFOLIO: REFLECTIVE EVALUATION (Sophie Avci)

QUESTION THREE

After showing our completed music video to our A2 media class, they filled in some audience feedback sheets (posted in previous blog posts) giving us their opinion on our video and the strengths and weaknesses that we can work on. Our class does contain mixed genders, meaning the audience feedback sheets were not all done by our target audience of females.

Below is a Wordle of their feedback. From this wordle we can see that the most common comments we have received are that our video is suitable, works well with the song, and we have good lip synching.




Our Variety of Camera Angles



Although the majority of the comments received were positive, one feedback sheet had a lot of negative comments such as 'it was difficult to watch'. We know that our music video will not be perfect as we are not professionals however we did make sure we had a lot of variety in the video, from camera angles to narrative ideas, so I think that our video was simply not enjoyed because the person does not like Kimya Dawson's music and anti-folk is not a genre he/she particularly likes.

'I'll show you who's the best'

During the actual making of the video we did ask for some audience feedback so we could alter some of the video to meet audience's needs. One section where we did this was on the princess bit where Rosa is on the bed saying 'I'll show you who's the best'. Originally we were going to have the sound down on this part and sync it so it fit with the soundtrack, however when we played it to a group of people with the sound up, they said they much preferred it with Rosa actually speaking over the soundtrack. By getting people's opinions during the production process we can alter our music video to make it more suitable for the audience.

 

Overall, I feel we had fairly positive feedback and I am pleased with the outcome. I think, however, if we had gathered audience feedback from a more wider unknown audience then we would receive more critical opinions as they would give their honest thoughts to the video.