Feedback

In today's lesson we showed our piece so far to the rest of our class. One of the main points which was empathized was that the lead singer (Henry) wasn't acting up to the standards which could be achieved by another member of the class instead. It was then decided that we would use someone else to be the lead singer in the performance parts of the video. However Henry still wanted to act in the video and so we chose for him to still act in the narrative parts of the video. We thought that it would work well to use two different lots of characters to help break up the performance and the narrative scenes even though they would be in the same video, these will then be brought together in post production.

There is a phone shown during the video, this was so the actor was wondering whether to call his ex or not. People noticed this and pointed out that its the summer of 69 and phones weren't invented. I found this was a good point and am willing to remove it from the video. Yet another member pointed out though that this was further on from the summer of 69, but i don't feel it is that much further on and even if it was the phone would have to be much bigger than the one we used.

Also fed-back was that people didn't feel as though the directing and camera work was split fairly due to Henry wanting to be acting, therefore we have now decided to split the directing between the both of us. Henry directing the narrative and me directing the performance.

People also wondered the reason why the couple broke up because it is not shown in the video at any point, we weren't planning on putting it in but now we are going to re-plan the narrative to see if this would work better.

Overall we have decided that we are going to re-shoot as much of the footage as possible, this will give us more to work with when it comes to editing.