Reflective Evaluation - Question 3

Harrison:
-Here is a screen grab of our video which we have posted on youtube and a comment from one of our viewers, giving strong points of the video as well as commenting on areas we could improve.

-We also have some scans of audience feedback sheets we had filled out by our peers, the feedback was mostly positive and with minimal criticisms.



Ryan:
-Audience feed back is important as it helps us improve by giving us suggestions on which parts of our editing we need to work on and scenes we should have done differently, it also helps us to identify mistakes we may not have seen ourselves, our target audience is late teens-to late 30's and so is a quite wide ranging target however the comments show mainly positive feedback and so it suggests that we have attracted our target audience in the correct way and that our video was mainly done to a high standard, we gathered this feedback through questionnaires using our class mates by making them watch our video and then feeding back to us and recording their comments on the sheets, the main negative comment we received was about the shifting lighting in some scenes and this seemed to be a recurring negative point on our video, however on the whole it generally gained positive comments as we had a wide variety of shots, a strong narrative and good lip syncing/editing.

-Here we have a wordle comprised of sentences and words from our feedback, the words that stand out the most are dark, great and video, from this we can confer that the dark theme we intended for our video came across clearly and the audience were, on a whole positive about the quality and narrative of our video.
-Non of our feedback called for any major changes to the video and we feel that the negative lighting feedback is valid, overall we are pleased with the feedback we have had as it mainly praises our work. 

Kyle - In terms of what the audience said about our video, most of the feedback we received have been positive, leading to no real reason for disagreement. The lighting has only been a commonly mentioned problem, however, only mentioned by a minority of those who gave feedback, which was also accompanied by praise towards the overall finished product.

The lighting problem described is in the scene where consistent lighting can be most expected, which is the confession scene.

Considering both shot sequences occur closely to one another as both are in the same area (confession in priest quarters), it is expected to have consistent lighting levels. However, naturally when using lighting, applying it in different parts of the same area that vary in size can depict different results, which was the case of this sequence. Kathy's (singer) side of the confession was a more elongated corridor that when applied with additional light, created a flushing out effect that made the white levels escalate, making the outcome of the video appear over exposed resulting in the loss of detail and an unnaturally bright image. On Ryan's (priest) side however, his side of the confession took place in a wider sized room, which had only one built in light source, which proved to be too dark. This prompted us to plant a light at one side of his area during the sequence to simulate a closer source of light such as a desk lamp or a ceiling bulb in his immediate vicinity albeit, off frame. Despite this, the sequence still made sense to those we have screened our music video to.