Final Music Video Feedback

This feedback was given after showing our class our near finished video. With everyone liking the video, we received a variety of feedback. One classmate believed we should not have had the white background however, he was disagreed by a fellow class members and the truth behind the white background was to simply show the audience that he is institutionalised. We felt that if we changed this it'd make the narrative less clear which would affect how well we can sell our star image to the isolated youth.

An interpretation behind the lead singer picking up the brain was to symbolise him in his fantasy world trying to actually see what is wrong with his brain himself and then near the end when he is reaching his back to reality stage, he simply throws his brain against the walls and it breaks to show he is mentally broken.

The organic aspect of the band and generic conventions we used such as close ups and lip syncing allowed us to sell our star image to the disengaged youth of society and the hard rock fans.

Overall from this feedback we wanted specifically to get what people thought the video was lacking and constructive criticism of the video for us to have a think about to improve the video. However, we got such positive feedback from the class and they all enjoyed the video and gave us lots of praise. These were the constructive criticism that were given received:

1. The white background doesn't match rest of video
2. A few effects were over the top specifically the wave transition and colour changes with band
3. Black bars at the top and bottom make them smaller
4 Brain aspect of the video unclear
However, there were some contradictions with some people who disagreed with the criticism another classmate gave. For example one person didn't like the white background and said it didn't match the video while another who clearly understood the concept of a mental asylum understood that the whit aspect was vital to show this. So while we appreciate the feedback we believe that the white background is key aspect of the video that we do not wish to change.

This was very useful feedback and all of what was said has been considered as to how we can make it better.