Test Screening

Today we decided that our music video was finally complete and ready to screen to other media students. This was so that we could get some final feedback and make any last minute changes. So we held a test screening which went really well. We could see it on a bigger screen, and this meant it was easier to spot any mistakes/problems.

One of the main problems was that the lipsynching was out. It was quite obvious, but we hadn’t noticed it on the edit suite. However this is easily changed if we move certain shots backwards or forwards by 1 or 2 frames. Some also said that the blur effect that we added onto the flashbacks was too much and they couldn’t see the shot properly so we just need to take that down a bit. They also thought that the white effect that we added around the edges of the shots was also too much and took up too much of the frame, therefore we also need to make this smaller, which I agreed with when I watched it on the big screen. Someone also didn’t see the relevance of the last shot (the one that’s out of focus) but our reason for this is that the last shot is summing it all up as it represents how he’s feeling which is lost and confused so we saw that as a good way to end the video.

Other feedback that we got was that everyone agreed that the performance that we got out of our actors was really good and believable as they felt sorry for Daniel’s character and saw Bernard’s as cocky and not really showing much emotion. They also liked the editing, particularly where we cut quickly and when we cut on beat. Soo overall it was really good and we only have small changes to make which shouldn't take long and then we are complete!