Sunday, 27 February 2011
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
For the most part, the audience was unable to identify any problems with any of the texts. Except for one shot in the video, a point of view shot where Andrew is supposedly looking over the desk at what the other students are doing, saying that it's very unsteady and a little 'drunken'. As it was too late to change it at this point, we couldn't do much about it, but we did identify it's source; it had looked a little odd without something there and it was the only thing we had, given the chance to redo it, we'd have a much more stable shot. With my ancillary texts the only problem identified is that it was a little lacking in pictures and that the text on the page was unreadable, but that was just because iWeb wanted to display it dodgily when I clicked 'visit', it was easily fixed. I couldn't really get anymore on this, seeing as the people I asked on deviantART didn't fill in the questionairre I did on survey monkey. I also got a bit of conflict from one person saying that my homepage was too simple, whereas another said that it was a good thing that it was simplistic, so I decided to keep it pretty simple.
My predictions of the target audience were fairly accurate in my opinion, from what we saw from things like the demographics of the video. The most common age group that had viewed the video were 18-25 year olds that lived in English speaking countries, though if I remember correctly a couple of Spanish or Portugese people had seen it, but they don't count as part of the target audience. Unlike the unreliablity of certain peoples we did show the video to our class, quite a few of which would be considered part of our target audience. Another thing that I half expected was that they would prefer to see another video rather than a website seeing as most people I know that like the group would much rather watch videos than read content or actually by albums, let alone singles. I'll admit that I was a little disappointed that this was the case with our group, but I was glad at the same time since it meant they liked the video that we all worked hard on.
The TA seemed to like pretty much all of our video (oh how huge my ego must sound) With the video what seemed to be the most popular section was the part where it all rewound itself. Though one or two people didn't understand why it had happened, most people thought it was pretty clear. Another part that the people were joined in their veiw of is that the effects were excellently used. The target audience also responded well to the effects used on my webpage and digipak to create the more grungey, destroyed looks of the images within them.
Monday, 7 February 2011
WhyamIpostingthissolate?
Blogger and images are not bros. But I used photobucket to upload the image so loop hole it. B) I'm annoyed that it doesn't fit nicely onto my blog though, tch. Blogger wont even let me resize it. :'c
Whelp.
Survey money is not very helpful. |: Neither are DeviantART watchers. I got a grand total of nul replies. I am so popular.
Sarcasm. Sarcasm, everywhere.
I feel that using survey monkey is not really a very good idea, unless you have a large group of people that you can pressure into it by not allowing them to leave the room or something like that. Otherwise, I wont be using it again. . .
Probably.
Audience Feedback for video
This is a nice video to us questioning the rest of the class about our music video as evidence of audience feedback.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Well, well.
We decided to change the plot line/ narrative of out story a little; we had the shots that were originally had him breaking out and then the end being a flashback but it didn't really make very much sense. So we decided to have some sort of perilous event happening, but because reshooting at this point would be impractical we decided that it would be best to play around with the effects.
The end effect reminds me a bit of those videos where you see a nuclear explosion. . . Only without the explosion, then the rewind would be like the whole "life flashing before your eyes" concept you supposedly get when you die.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Video Finishing
Oh yes. The music video is now complete. In this last lesson we played around with the colours some more and made it a sort of yellowish and blue colours until the mask comes off. We also made a simple title using a program called LiveType to create a simple title for the video like the ones that come up before and after (well, a little at the start and a little before the end) of the video to make it look more official.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
In lesson today we started to mess around with the effects, since we've done all of the editing (as in putting it in order and trimming). We added in some saturation and and contrast effects to the start of the video and experimented with the chroma keyer effect. We thought that it would draw more attention to the masks and make it look more oppressive in a way. We also used the earthquake effect to help build up to him taking of the mask and it hitting the ground and added in another effect to our CCTV footage to make it look more like it was done with a camera.
We aslo got some audience feedback on our coursework so far. The majority of the feedback was good, though a continuity error we fixed. People seemed to really like our effects and thought that the narrative was pretty clear, so it's all good.