*giggles*

[clo_again]

Okay. You may have heard me talk a bit - or a lot - about my music video in the last few weeks right? Well this week we've been watching everyone's videos and filling in 'feedback' sheets for them. I got my pile of feedback sheets today and some of the comments are so funny I have to share them. So...



A note: I was doing the Evanescence song 'My Last Breath' which I consider 'goth rock'. The basic plot involved a girl following a guy who ignored her all the way through the video, until in the final shot she fades away beside a gravestone and you realise she was just a ghost all along.

Spelling and capitalisation is all the reviwer's. My comments in italics There's quite a lot of stuff so I'll just pick the best ones. :-) Some of these are funniest when compared to the others because everyone contradicts each other!

Question One on the Sheet - What genre is the video?

- CHEESY NU METAL
- Rock/Pop
- Alternative/drama
- Alternative Pop
- Pop rock
- Gothic Pop
- Nu-metal, me thinks (this is actually what they wrote)
- Techno Rock
- Goth Rock (yey! a right answer!)
- Pop metal
- Gothic - new age
- Alternative
- Rock/pop/ballard (put em all down, you can't be wrong right? ;-) )

Question Two - How Would You Describe the Approach

- Strange. Narrative is not clear. Style not clear.
- Good approach and the narrative is well displayed.
- The colours didn't really suit the track (It was filmed in ordinary colour with blue lighting for the band sequence; I'm not entirely sure what other colours WOULD have suited it)
- Narrative wasn't clear - was a good ending though
- Great narrative, very effective
- Weird chilling feeling
- Using a narrative with the band fitted in well with the track. However I did not understand the narrative.
- Narrative very good and clear to the audience.
- Liked Idea of Ghost
- Easy to understand narrative. And use of interior location. Yes I know I used an interior location. Am somewhat confused as to why *you're* telling me this...
- Sorrowful weepy Rock. Fits track appropriatly <--- can't spell (yes they wrote this)


Question Three - How effective is the use of visuals? (camerawork, mise-en-scene etc)

- No real imagination in editing
- Editing was excellent
- VARIETY OF ANGLES, EDITING WAS GOOD - SYNCHRONISED TO TRACK.
- Locations worked well with narrative.
- Locations could be better
- Good side shots. Over shoulder shots.
- Mise-en-scene is good, with gothique feel.


Question four - Strengths and Weaknesses?

- Lip sinking was good. (must not giggle.... must not giggle.... *giggles*
- Lip sync - need to relax abit more.
- Lip synching was out of time (I agree with this; tons of the feedback sheets say it and I know it was defnitely off on some shots)
- College terrible and unimaginative setting
- Locations worked well with the narrative
- Acting very good
- Acting could have been more animated and confident (I wasn't even paying the poor actors!)
- Narrative not very clear
- Clear narrative
- Interesting narrativ

Question five - Where would you expect to see this video in the real world?

- Outtakes in ten years time from music blunders. or Karrang. (Kerrang is a music channel over here, but this person deserves points for ingenuity. *snickers*)
- Music video channel
- Don't know
- T.V.

Question six - Any other comments?

- Very good video
- Oh she's dead. (No shit sherlock. At least she understood it.
- Get a better band behind you (This probably comes from the fact they weren't even a band - only the drummer even knew how to play ^__~)
- Better planned shots. Better mining. (This is an insult considering the planning I did. I also think he means better *miming*)
- No



The feedback sheets made me laugh so much on the bus on the way home I just had to share them. The good thing is I think the only main problem is the lip sync - for everything else they've said is bad there are at least as many people saying the same thing is *good*. I haven't quite worked out why some people loved the narrative and understood it completely while others didn't understand at all - my brother suggested some of them were just stupid. Which is mean, but - apologies to them - probably true.

Have finished latest chapter of Myth, just needs editing. Am gonna have a ton of editing to so this weekend.

Off to eat dinner. Maybe back later. Love, peace and jelly babies,

Clo

Comments

[lillyv.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha! I LOVE feedback day! Especially when you get feedback from people who manage to entirely miss the point of your story/video/whatever, or when you get feedback where you can tell the person is intentionally being nice to you just so you don't rip their work apart when you have to review it.

College writing classes: they're like ff.net in a way.

*giggles*

[clo.livejournal.com]

It is fun when people entirely miss the point. Unfortunately we didn't write our names on the feedback forms so I can't tell who was nice and who was nasty. *le sigh* And revenge would have been *so* sweet. ;-)

I definitely agree with the ff.net comparison - some of the comments I got wouldn't have looked at all out of place with all the OMG!!WTF!!I[heart]THISFICSOMUCHOMG!1!1! comments any bad fic there is sure to generate. :-)

Ah funny feedback. No doubt when I go to university to do Creative Writing I'll experience it much more.

Clo