Evaluation question 2

What have you learned from your audience feed back?

After publishing our finished project onto YouTube we asked people to watch it and give us some feedback on how they felt about it and what they thought we did well and what they thought we could have done to improve it. We had a wide range o feedback from people with many different viewpoints on the project and what could have been done to make it better.

One of the most frequently things that was pointed out as being well done was our use of effects like slow motion and replays of clips within the scene. These effects that we used were seen as effective and gave the project the feel and atmosphere that we were aiming for. The slow motion for example, we were told in the feedback from our audience that we received that it let the person watching it that the scene had some clear meaning and message that was slowed down to allow people to pick it up.


One other scene that had particularly good feedback was one of the scenes at the end that involved both characters fading into view simultaneously and then having one of them fade away again as the other character remained in focus through the shot. This was seen as a very effective use of editing and timing by our audience, as they said it gave the project the vibe and atmosphere that we intended it to have. Because the song we chose to make a video on had a low, stalking and uncertain message and vibe to it, we chose to try and implement that into the project with different effects, and with the audience feedback that we received, it seems it was achieved.


However there were some points that were highlighted to us that we didn't do as well as we had hoped in. One of these points that was brought to our attention was some of the transitions in the project. There were various  point during the video where the transition between scenes were not very smooth and were noticeably unclean. This had an effect on the audience as they were not able to fully enjoy the video because they were focusing to much on the mistakes and rough transitions.


Another point that was made about one of the less well done parts of the project was the location that the video was set in. There were some parts of our location that we felt matched the atmosphere of the video really well, for example the grave yard. The issue with it is that we used the same location in our A2 as our AS. Whilst the individual scenes did not have the exact same location as the AS video, the general location was the same just with slightly different places in the scenes. This was brought up by our audience who said that they would have much rather our A2 have a different location altogether so as to keep it different from AS and to try something new. Unfortunately due to the location of where we live, we didn't have much opportunity for a range of locations, so we had tpo make do with what he had. Despite trying our best to not have the video with the same background as AS, it appears we didn't do a good job of changing it up enough.

On the whole however, the response from our audience feedback was positive and only mentioned a couple of things that could of been improved. This gives us a lot of confidence that we did a great job on our production and made a good quality video.