Audience Feedback

In order for my group and I to gain audience feedback, and to see what people thought about our video and whether it linked in to the genre of Florence and the Machine; we created a youtube account, and uploaded the video to it, asking members of the audience to comment on the features within the video, and what they liked and disliked about the composition we had created.

We had a small amount of feeback from doing this, but gathered some really good responses about the video. There were particular aspects in which the audience liked, as well as a few improvements that could have been shown to be better, or which can be taken on board in any future topics.

A compliment that came across from reading the feeback is the use of the camera, and how by using different environments and shot types, the audience can feel as if they are involved in the narrative, and it does not always feel like the point of view of the camera and no one else. It was also commmented on that as a group we put across the style of Florence and the Machine, and stuck well to the narrative behind the song, meaning that we portrayed the theme of lonliness throughout and made this obvious to the audince.

However, as well as compliments, from the feedback we also gathered some improvements that could be made if we were to do the task again. One improvment was that on one occasion there was a small amount of "stiff acting" , where the actors used did not portray the idea across as well as they could have. This is due to instruction, and from recieving this, I now know that telling your actors exactly what you want as a director is important, and by doing this not only do they feel more relaxed but they can also bring the video and themselves to its full potential. Another improvement which could be made, is the use of the lighting inside the house scene, and how it began to have a yellowing tint. To fix this, i now know how important adjusting the white balance on the camera is, and because artifical lighting from the rooms are being used to create the scene, it is important that this is adjusted to suit the environment, creating a better picture for the video.




















Here is a print screen of how the video was posted onto www.youtube.com in order for audience feeback to be gathered. It was also important to give it an appropriate name of 'Florence and the Machine final edit', in order for it to be found, and for people to hopefully recognise what it was.