Question 3: Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
- 1. Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
- 2. Were the conventions picked up? • The audience responses overall seemed to show that the genre of the video was recognised as indie. • The face that I originally used these conventions to show this proved that I overall succeeded at the convention.
- 3. Were the conventions picked up? (continued) • I also asked if the video was particular of the genre. • The response was overwhelmingly “Yes” highlighting again that the codes and conventions were typical of a folk indie video.
- 4. Evaluation of comments • I also asked the audience for the best thing about the video. • The main theme seemed to be the masks and the narrative- I wanted the masks to be the constant force driving the narrative throughout due to the meaning they had behind them. • I was also happy due to the fact that the overall narrative was open to interpretation which was positive since someone in these comments picked up on my overall narrative of domestic violence.
- 5. Evaluation of comments (continued) • I asked my audience to evaluate the worst thing about this video. • From the comments I could also back up the fact that I had problems with the shots and overall colour of the video. • Due to the nature of the indie genre, certain challenges were in place limiting the amount of colour that I could have for the forest etc. • This would be something I would have worked on due to the blurriness of shots in places. I worked to aid some of this in my piece but some did not fit which can overall explain the jumpiness between shots in parts.
- 6. Evaluation of comments (continued) • In terms of improvements I could see that some shots would need to be retaken in order to make the video clearer both in picture and narrative. • I can also see that the angles could have had certain improvement to it. • Otherwise there was generally nothing that needed improvement.
- 7. Comments to myself • Overall if I could film this again I would ensure that every shot was in fact clear for my video. • I would have taken more time for my masks making sure they were coloured and much clearer. • I would have also made sure that there was more light for my video, I originally thought that the wolf scenes would have worked better in the dark but personally it could have worked much better in a greater amount of light. • I could have also made sure that there was less jumpiness between shots in order to aid the overall idea of the narrative.
- 8. In reflection • Overall the video worked well. • The responses were still positive while still constructive for me. • Although there was some improvement needed it was found that my video generally conveyed the storyline positively.