3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

At the beginning of the project, we all came up with treatments for different songs, in case we didn't get the one we wanted. I think Louis came up with one for Daisy's 'Number One Enemy', Hannah came up with one for Esthero's 'Wickked Lil' Grrrls' (which is the one we ended up using) and I came up with a treatment for Au Revoir Simone's 'Shadows'.

As the Wikked Lil' Grrrls was the video we actually used the peer and teacher feedback for, I will write the feedback we got for that one.

The first feedback we got was that the location would be hard to find, as we wanted it to be set in a Jazz bar. We had various ideas such as a pub or some nightclubs we had contacts in but ended up using the junction because they are friendly already with the cmdiploma. Also it would have to be short notice in order for us to find an alternative place in time.

We also wanted to have a car driving in to the bar at the start of the video, but we decided not to use this as a car would have to be 50's style (we wanted the classic Jazz bar thing) and Louis's contact who had one died a few months before so he couldn't get hold of it anymore. Everyone seemed to like the burlesque theme but we thought that corsets would look too tacky so kept the style but made it more sparkly and glitter rather than corsets. It also goes very well with the music.

Nick was definately impressed that we planned to use a dance routine, and told us we'd get a lot of extra marks if we manage to pull it off. Generally the feedback for our treatment for Wikked Lil' Grrrls was positive and constructive and helped us progress. We also developped a better working relationship as a group after the feedback because we weren't debating on which song to use.

After the rough cut for our video we got some more feedback on how to improve it. Pete said that the tracking shot that goes up Hannah to show off her costume in the dressing room was good, but needed to show her face otherwise it's pointless. We decided to follow this piece of advice and showed her face. However in order to do this we would have had to either speed up the footage which looks strange or cut out the beginning of the tracking clip. The reason we needed to do this was because we wanted to use the clip of Hannah saying 'Dukes up' because it was a strong shot. We made the decision in the end to lose the shot of Hannah walking on to the stage/ performance area because it was not such a strong shot because of the lighting.

Steve said it would be nice if we had one mid-shot or close up of Hannah that we could keep coming back to, to give the video more continuity. We tried this with a few clips but found that most of them didn't work. However we did manage to find that one close up of Hannah which I think Pete said was the strongest shot in the video and that we should use more of. We added an effect that everyone liked to that clip called 'soft focus'. Nick told us that we needed more of the dance routine to come back. When we told him that we already had used all of the dance routine parts, he showed us that with a change of camera angle and lighting, the same dance move could look unrecognizable in the right place.

Some of the other feedback we got for our roughcut from our peers was:

. Nice Variety of shots . Lighting well presented . The dance routine is very good . Good ending .Cinematography is very good . Good lipsyncing . Nice locations . Good choreography . Good use of cutaways . nice costumes . convincing performance. needs more footage of boys . the card game doesn't fit . lipsync is slightly off.

We noticed that some people say the lipsync is good and others say it was off. This is because where it was off it was only by a few frames, and some people may not have noticed after only watching once. However, we also noticed quite quickly that our lipsync was off, and also made the mistake a few times of not locking the layers, and so stuff got moved.

Pete also said that the fade effect works (I think he meant where it fades from out of focus to in focus) but he said it needs tweaking. He told us to find a way to make some of the shots lighter. We took this advice on the lighting and I found an effect called colour correction which did wonters for the lighting and even made it seem more crisp. The only clip I feel this did not work too well for is the blue lighing one because it becomes grainy, but the effect in general is good, because effects such as brightness and contrast make it much more grainy and makes the blacks in our video look grey.

Feedback for our final video:

Firstly for this video I posted our video on Facebook and got a few comments there. Also the teachers have emailed various film/music video pros to give us feedback.

Film maker Ben Gee - 'nice cuts, professional look; good fades, light used well, very good use of mix shots with big close ups and shared shot on screen; care in filming and edited very well; doubled up shots very nicely done; blur effect good; all good quality, no bad shots; cards at end make it look pro' Facebook feedback-

Then yesterday (Wednesday 17th March), we got peer feedback on Vimeo.

Feedback from others in the class:

I think this is the thing that most people have noted- The cards at the end (the dance routine) and the lighting.

generally a positive comment

'speedy cuts' are mostly towards the beginning, we ran out of cutaways at the end so if we had more time we'd try to maintain this throughout.