Feedback for music video exercise

After showing the music videos to the class, we were given feedback about what we could do better and what went well, in terms of performance, camerawork and editing. For my video, I got some negative and positive feedback.

Performance

• There were a variety of different dance moves,and this added variety to the sequence.
  
• However, it was an upbeat song and the cuts weren't quite fast paced enough to mix to the music.
• The lip syncing was effective, and my group worked well together.
• There was effective framing, and the shot with us all together worked well.

Camerawork

• There were static shots but they were at interesting angles, such as the recording on the macbook with all of us in the frame.
• There was interesting framework and it was also effective.

Editing

• The video needs more cuts, as the video is very upbeat and sometimes it did not mix as well, it would need to be cut faster.

Overall..
From the task overall, I gained an insight into what music editing would be like, as I did in the previous lip sync exercises. The exercise was very good as i learnt how to lip sync effectively, and realised how to link the video up with the music from watching everybodies finished tasks. After watching Matt L's video of the same track, I realised he had cut the video alot better to the music and this helped me learn how to intertwine video and music together.

Other groups feedback

Dave
Daves version of 'Im a believer' was edited very well, although sometimes the lip syncing was not right and did not match. However, Joe and Matt H did a good performance and felt comfortable - this came across in the video. They knew the words and they were exposed well in the video.

Joe
In Joe's version of 'Im a believer' there were alot more cuts (roughly 2 seconds a shot) and it worked better with the music. The video was cut between the lyrics and it worked with the rythym of the track. The performance was good as with Daves, and there was a good variety of shots, with more close ups.

Philippa
With Philippa's version of 'Im a believer' she had cut well to the music, focusing on gestures to fit with the llyrics etc, The cutting was effective and the group performed well.

Alex
With Alex's version of 'Roxanne' the group had a good performance and worked well together. In terms of editing, there were different abgles, positions, places and a character to each person. There was good editing, with close ups, long shots and effective cutting with the music.

Tim
With Tim's version of 'Roxanne', the performance came across well and you could see the group had gotten into the song and the idea of filming it. They worked well as a group. The editing was done very well and you could see it was clearly cut to the music track.

Loz, James, Hayden
With their performance of 'I fought the law', the performance was effective and they looked like they were enjoying themselves, their performance was very physical with alot of running etc. In terms of editing, there were a few shots which showed the start of variation, but they were all infront of a greenscreen and this made the performance all a bit too similar. The transition's were done well, and they added a bit of pace to the video. However, the videos were only half finished and they all had a 'ran out of time' element to them. It was clear they had tried to do too much but had simply not had enough time to do all of what they hoped to.