3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Part one of question three

From the audience feedback from teachers within the school, I learnt that our music video appeals to the correct target audience (teenage girls) and is about a break up with the girl showing her courage to break free from it and her build of becoming stronger. However, I learnt from it that the dancing could be better choreographed and the lip syncing could be improved in some parts but not all places. It is also mentioned how the jar smashing is too violent for the bridge part of the strong but I think that this works well to show how she is innocent but she can stand up for herself and is becoming the bigger person.



Part two of question three
After completing the music video task, I decided to publish a survey on my Facebook to get friends to complete a few questions regarding the music video. The reason I did this is because we both have a wide variety of Facebook friends considering we have family, school friends, work friends and family friends on our Facebook friends list meaning we would have a wide sample size to answer our survey. However, only 12 people took time to complete the survey but it was enough for us to get feedback.

 From this, it is clear that the majority of our friends who answered our survey were female and were between the ages of 18-29 which is slightly sample bias as there wasn't an equal split between male and female and ages. However, we did get people from different ages responding to our survey.

The first question that we asked was
When you watched the music video, what stood out to you the most?
The answers that we got the editing was good, professionalism, lighting changes, monotone effect, main character shows a lot of emotion and is very good at her lip syncing, jar smashing and the choreography.

The second question was
In a short summary, what would you say the storyline for the music video is?
The answers that we got were a boy has played the girls around and has broken their hearts but the main character has suffered in particular with this and shows how she can over come it, heartbreak, the end of a relationship, "a small mouse has ran into the cage of a lioness" and a broken love story.

The third question was
Do you think that the storyline links to the song lyrics?
Out of 12, 9 of the respondents said yes and the other 3 said no.

The fourth question was
Do you think that the actors used within the music video fit the genre and suited the song?
Every respondent of the survey said yes.

The fifth question was
Do you think that the camera angles worked well? If yes, why?
The answers that we got were yes but there could've been more involved, they showed a lot of different emotions, they showed different aspects of the dancers which worked well and they were soft which matched the song and made it professional.

The sixth question was
Do you think that this is a typical music video that you'd see for a pop song? Why?
The answers that we got were yes because it had dancers which is a typical code and convention for pop songs,  and a lot of pop songs involve a girl and a boy.

The seventh question was
Looking at the lighting, angles and transitions within the video, do you think that they work well and why?
The answers that we got were yes because they are in pace with the song, fit the emotion, create a sense of relief when the lighting changes to indicate her strength compared to his.

The final question we asked was
If you could make the video better, what would you change? 
The reason that we asked this was because we found that it would be interesting to see what others would change if they were in control of our music video. The answers that we got were have some parts in colour, more effects and backgrounds, lip syncing and maybe the lighting could be lighter.

In conclusion to this, I do agree with a lot of the comments said in the survey. In regards to the improvements that could be addressed, I believe that the lighting could be lighter but it fits with the lyrics and story lines. In the video, we made the lighting brighter on two occasions when the lyrics and video indicated that the main character was the bigger person in the scenario.