First Draft Music Video Feedback

These are the feedback sheets for our first draft of our music video. We have put all the feedback together and know what we need to do in order to improve our whole video.

First draft feedback

Today we showed our first draft to our class and teachers so they could watch it and give us feedback on how to improve it. As a whole, there were lots of ways we could improve it. One of the most common themes was the cinematography. A lot of the outside shots were shaky as we were doing them handheld because of issues with the ground and the dolly. A lot of our classmates and teachers felt that we would need to re-do these shots using either a dolly, tripod, steadicam or shoulder mount to make it much more stable. We as a group already decided that we would do this after we completed our first draft. Another common theme was to change the ending of the video. The video ends in the recording studio and seems very anti-climatic and slightly boring as there are quite a few of these recording studio shots in the video at the moment. Again we had decided already that we wanted to film at one of the locations we went to for our photo-shoot and include it towards the end. A few of the positives included the performance and lip singing of our main artist. This is something that we noticed, however a few times (especially towards the beginning of shooting) we felt that Jacob didn't know all the words and sometimes wasn't performing them well enough so that the audience would be able to understand what he was saying.

Reflecting on our first draft

In combination of the feedback from our class and teachers, I felt it would also be good to reflect on our first draft with my own opinion. I felt that our first draft was successful in creating a frame for our group to work on. A lot of the shots were rough shots of what we want the video to look like. As we were also pushed for time, we decided to not focus on the quality of these shots just so that we had the basis of a music video to show our class to get feedback. The only shots our group intend on keeping are the party shots as they came out very well and look very realistic. They were also praised in the feedback. This first draft has been useful for us as it has showed us the importance of scheduling shoots and deciding what equipment we will be using before the day of these shoots.

Music video first draft

This our first draft for our music video. There are many shots that we will come to re film for our final draft but for now we feel this is a good stage to be at.