Audience Feedback - Briefing

Here is a photo of Olly (My partner) and I as we give a short briefing to a class of students from the year below about what our A2 media music video is based on and what we are trying to achieve. They all liked the idea of our music video which we have set out to create and all of the students we asked apart from one said they liked the Indie Pop genre when we explained it was artists like Florence + The Machine and Ellie Goulding. This meant that we weren't given much creative criticism to add more to the planning process of the music video.

Lighting Workshop

Here is a range of different photos that I took on my phone and asked other people to take of me for my A2 lighting workshop that I was taught in my A2 class as well as there being an As media class to help show us all the importance of lighting being used within filming when done professionally. They showed us a huge range of different lighting techniques which is why I have added a slideshare of images showing different lighting features. One of my favorite effect that I was shown was a 'reflector' because it is a very basic method of adding more light to a certain position (normally someone's face) within a dark scene to help capture the attention of that specific part of the image adding more depth and meaning so the audience knows exactly what they should be looking towards.

 

Main Task Lyrics

Here I have broke down the lyrics of the chosen song Olly and I are doing for our music video which is called 'The Fray - How To Save A Life' which'll be an Indie Pop genre. I have highlighted the main lyrics of the song which we'll try set our filming and editing around throughout the production of the music video so it has a realistic and professional storyboard for our target audience. Instead of it being about a relationship between two people it is going to be about a man and his dog to convey the stereotypical  man into being a soft person who is about to lose his dog.

The Fray-

How To Save A Life

Step one, you say we need to talk

He walks, you say sit down, it's just a talk

He smiles politely back at you

You stare politely right on through

Some sort of window to your right

As he goes left, and you stay right

Between the lines of fear and blame

You begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best

Cause after all, you do know best

Try to slip past his defense

Without granting innocence

Lay down a list of what is wrong

The things you've told him all along

And pray to God he hears you

And I pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice

You lower yours and grant him one last choice

Drive until you lose the road

Or break with the ones you've followed

He will do one of two things

He will admit to everything

Or he'll say he's just not the same

And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life

How to save a life

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong?

I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life

How to save a life

Treatment

After a lot of research we have decided to use a male actor who is happy with his dog. His dog becomes I'll and he dies and we have decided to explore how people cope with losing a loved one and subverted the expectations using a dog and not a human partner. The feedback from the audience was positive as it will appeal.

Audience feedback - Moodboard



Here are some images of Olly and I displaying a short brief to a selected number of people where we shared our ideas and thoughts on what we were going to do for our main music video. We've created a mood board which has song lyrics as well as pictures of key props, costumes and the layout that we need to have in our music video to help make it more dramatic and meaning full to our target audience as we are planning on doing our music on 'The Fray - How To Save A Life' being an indie pop music video. From this briefing we got back some great feedback and questions which has helped guide us in a better direction so we know more about what we need to add to the music video and how to do this properly. 

Audience Feedback

Whilst being with a few of my friends I played 'The Fray, How To Save A Life'. After I played the music video to them I asked them to create a spider diagram each and to show what they thought and felt when they heard the music video. This helped me as it gave me a better impression to what we need to put into our music video to make it match these feelings which are shown by the words and sound of 'The Fray's' voice to make the video as good as it can possibly be.

Stromae - Carmen

This video was shown to me in class a few weeks ago. It's a very unique and different video shown to me compared to a more mainstream video. This is because it represents and interprets the social media in different ways telling us that it looks good but it is actually dangerous. I know this because a lot of bullying and other issues are caused through the social media, this wouldn't happen before social media as people wouldn't have the chance to do so which makes the audience aware of the social media in this way and tells us to be aware that bad things can happen to you and not just other people.