Feedback from our current music video

This screenshot was taken during showing our current music video to the whole class.

Advantages:

• They said that we have picked the right actor for the female character as she was good at portraying her role. For example, the female was good at portraying melancholic and lonely throughout the music video and it made our audience to sympathies at her and identify themselves in the situation she is in.
• One of the audience said that we have picked the beach as the right location for isolating the female character.
• The narrative and performance based was clear.
• Good at picking different locations which matches to romance/ love theme of our music video and keeps it interesting. For example, the living room with red curtains and sofa connotes as love which matches the theme of our music video.
• Excellent use of mise-en-scene  and connotations such as the female character's clothing throughout the music video. We have used white top and gown because we wanted to portray her innocence and purity.  Also the black jacket implies that every one have two different sides. She is also wearing the latest fashion trends which makes the audience feel that they are the same.
• A wide range of different camera shots and techniques to keep the music video interesting. Also they are suitable for each scenes such as close up shots to focus on her melancholic expressions so the audience focuses on her more.
• Good use of editing and effects such as dissolves which matches the slow paced of the song. And also it implies that as time goes by the bad memories will fade away.

Disadvantages:

• One of the student said that we need to split one of the clips because it's long and it doesn't make it look boring to watch.
• We need to use fast cuts as well because the song has up beat tempo.
• There is a scene where we cut to early and we need to stretch it a little bit more.
• There was too much of showing the female character which would it look boring for the audience to watch. Therefore, we need to introduce the male character as well.

Conclusion:

Overall, I think that we had a good feedback from everyone in our class and we have decided as a group to do some changes in our current music video so it looks even better. My group and I needs to do more filming this weekend to fill in the gaps. We need to film the female getting ready and the beach scene were she is sat next to her ex jacket which is part of the narrative in our music video.