Negative Feedback
The over dramatic acting was a major issue and was one that was the most obvious. It let some elements of the music video down. Josh and Chloe on Facebook both pointed this out on the first cut, Josh put:
"Acting is far too dramatic compared to the song...but your still hearing a soft song."
Chloe agreed and also added:
"the acting is far too dramatic for the song"
From this I understand why I would have over done the acting. My music interest is different to this song, the song choice is something that I wouldn't normally listen to, but I do like Adele's style and songs. I normally listen and watch music videos from rock/metal bands, especially female singers who are using high range and powerful vocals and in their music videos they are powerful within their performance style, depending on the song, even if its a soft song, they do use a powerful expression, a passionate element that female front women carry in their music. This is probably due to the fact its material they have written and this song we have chosen is not our own, but someone's cover of the song, their style of singing this song. With no experience in working within a music video, I have took part in videos, such as TV Dramas and other projects, but a music video is something I haven't tried and as we did struggle to find actors I took up the role to be within the video. So this feedback will help me when other future projects come along in the future, where I can watch how I act out within the video, not to be other dramatic.
The over dramatic elements also link to the syncing problems that our audience noticed. Chloe on Facebook mentioned this after saying about it being over dramatic and said:
"it's obvious in some areas that it's being mimed"
Looking back on the video I can see where Chloe is coming from, as the over dramatic acting wouldn't fit the songs speed and style and so it would make it obvious that I am miming to the song.
Over on Youtube however, MsNRGBunny didn't mention the over dramatic acting but did mention syncing problems:
"Only noticed one "hiccup" where the lips were out of sync with music"
Maybe from this response this person didn't mind having the over dramatic acting and wasn't so much of a problem. However from other audience's feedback it seems it is the over dramatic acting that seems to be the problem.
Positive Feedback
The other piece of feedback we got similar comments on the use of images and the song go well together, created a powerful effect for the audience. On Youtube for the first cut user MsNRGBunny commented on this:
"The images and the song itself were lovely"
This is also similar to those comments shown on the Youtube Final Cut, where users NoobianRose commented:
"I really like the b/w shots, these seemed the most powerful. Like the shot of you looking out of the window while you're riding in the a car"
This was also similar to the comment lyndaleamac posted:
"I liked the black and white effects in the song"
It seems that our choice of black and white for the non singing shots proved to have made a positive impact on our audience. The black and white seemed to be something that audiences like within a video, they indicate the tone of the song and emphasise the message of the song through visual, the effect of black and white instead of colour as been something that music videos have used for years. We had this balance of black and white with colour to balance everything out, to give variety and act as a sort of key for what each type of shot or scene stood for and this proved have succeeded by the comments of our audience.
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