Teacher Feedback

The first feedback we got was from our teachers. They gave us a few compliments and also gave us a few pointers to ensure that our film is the best we can do. They said that we need to make sure that we have good actors that are reliable, and to do this the best thing to do is to get adult actors as they will be more reliable than youths and also being as they are from a drama group, they are very good actors.  They also wondered why some of the shots were for a long period of time, to which we answered that they were the same shots, but they were from different angles to add more depth to the shots. They said that the editing needs to give meaning to the film and to emphasise the meaning in the editing therefore needing to make it apparent what meaning we are trying to show. They said that they liked the look of the graphic matched between the three narratives as it shows a good knowledge of the shots and it will look effective for the meaning. Finally, they commented on the mise-en-scene by saying that we needed to look out for what is in the shot and make sure that all of the mise-en-scene is appropriate and emphasises the meaning. So the targets that they gave to us were all very useful to us. Firstly, they said that we should ensure that the shots and editing was at a high level to bring forward the meaning of the song and not to lose any meaning through bad editing and shots.  Also we need to create and analyse at the same time so that we are thinking about the meaning presented from the shots at the same time as creating them. Then we need to identify the journey that the audience is going to make during the viewing of our music video to make us think why we are using certain shots in our piece. Finally, they made us think about a question. They said; how could we make it interesting and complex? This is to make us think why we are using certain shots and how these are going to keep the audience interested in the video.