What have I learnt from my audience feedback? - Music Video

To generate the audience feedback for the outcome of our music video, the production team and I thought it would be a constructive idea to video record the people we wanted to gain feedback from. We gained feedback from 6 people in total of which were 3 girls and 3 boys. We were unfortunately unable to video record the 3 boys as we could not see them in time, so we made use of the girls as the team and I see them everyday. We asked 4 main questions to our candidates. They were:

1 - What do you think the genre of the music video was?

2 - What were the best aspects of the music video?

3 - What were the worst aspects of the music video?

4 - What is your overall view?

Here are the answers from the 3 female candidates:

What I have learnt from the audience feedback from a girls point of view:

The main area of focus when it comes to the aspects of improvement, I have come to realise that a problem in which the female candidates have noticed is that a few scenes were grainy due to poor lighting. Therefore, as a result, some scenes may not have come out as best quality as hoped. Thus, if I were to make any adjustments to this project if I had extra time, then I would reassure myself that all scenes were of a high quality appearance and that the lighting would contribute to this reassurance.

Another aspect which I have come to realise is that the production team and I did well when it came to creating the narrative for the song lyrics. Additionally, they appeared to have liked the idea of the archetypes which added humour to the narrative and the music video as a whole.

Here are the responses from the 3 male candidates who answered the same questions as above:

Male candidate 1:

"I would suggest that the music genre was Pop."..."I liked the way in which the men were made more humorous due to their characters, and I also enjoyed watching the narrative as it was engaging"..."I would say that the scenes could have been filmed a bit more steadily"..."I personally would say that the music video is very good and I was impressed".

Male candidate 2:

"I'm guessing that the music genre could be between pop and rock"..."What I found a good aspect was the way you related the name of the song 'Superman' to the costumes of the two main characters"..."I did not like the scenes in the park as it appeared a very typical environment which was not that surprising"..."Overall, I did enjoy viewing the video but the scenes did not surprise me as it was filmed in areas I expected".

Male candidate 3:

"The genre I would say is definitely pop."..."The aspects I thought were good was the characters costumes as it made me laugh and made me want to carry on following the narrative."..."Something I did not find that good was the quality of certain scenes as it appeared fuzzy and the lighting was dimly light which made it difficult to see characters at times."..."Overall, I enjoyed watching the video and I would view it again."

What I have learnt from my audience feedback from a male point of view:

I have come to notice that the aspects in which the male candidates did not particularly take a liking to was the quality of the filming as certain scenes appeared fuzzy/grainy and at times unsteady, this was a response which was quite familiar within the female audience. This shows me that this was a noticeable factor which I would have changed if I had more time to edit the music video.

I have also come to realise that a factor which was popular among the male audience which they enjoyed viewing was the way in which we developed the archetypes in society through the use of costumes. This was another aspect in which the female candidates have picked up on, therefore this shows that the production team and I did this very well.