Feedback from Picture House

After seeing our video on the big screen at the Cambridge Picture House, we can finally call our video complete.

Unfortunately, our video had a few issues! The reversed sections were really stuttery, which of course, ruined that element of our video.

Secondly, the actual music sounded very flat and lifeless. This really damaged the mood of the video, and was especially strange as three other songs by the same artist sounded good.

Nevertheless, we received a strong applause and also, members of our group were complimented multiple times by people that had seen it.

Final Cut

Feedback on Final Cut

Generally our video received positive feedback.

We were told that we had good locations, such as when i was sitting by the lion.

There were some impressive shots as well, such the zoom in when Scott was on top of the car park.

Most of our video involved lip syncing and the feedback said that our lip syncing was solid.

At the end of the video you see me (Matt) strum the last chord on the guitar and then walk past. The camera then slides past and the screen goes to white. We were told that this was a good way to end the video and it was liked by everyone.

The song is fairly fast paced and we edited the video to go with the pace of the song. Towards the end of the song we increased the pace of the editing. The feedback said that this was really good and fits well with the video.

Our constructive criticism was that Scott was a little bit random in the video. Some people could not understand why he was included in the video. Perhaps if we hadn't had shots of us singing together it would have been more understood.

Overall we are happy with the feedback we have received because it was mainly positive.

Elements

After watching the final edits of each group in our class, we have seen a few techniques we could have applied in our own work. The majority of effects that were different to the ones we used were spooky and eerie effects. Thus we would not use them. Still, a few videos did manage to incorporate effects we either did not have enough time or footage to implement appropriately.

The main effects we would like to have been able to utilise are:

Slowmotion - As seen in group 47's video for 'Texas'

Breaking things - As seen in group 48's video for 'Lewis Parker'


Also, we feel we could have used some more striking motion effects to better create a dynamic visual assembley of colour and shape, which could better grab an audiences interest

Editing - Complete

Here is our final project file, with our entire timeline in view. We used nine video tracks in total, and two for audio (Left channel and Right channel).

We ensured we colour corrected every single clip to allow for the effective and attention grabbing effect we detailed in our original plans.