Feedback from Junction

Today we had lessons at the Junction to show our rough cuts of our music videos. We had quite a few videos between the whole class, and we showed them one after each other, with feedback inbetween from Simon Bates (junction co-ordinator) Rob Tinkler and Pete Edwards, who also worked at the junction and specialised in gigs etc. We also had Tom and Emma there to supervise the class and also to watch the videos, as they hadn't seen our music video rough cuts either so it was new to them too.

After watching our video, we received some feedback which would be very helpful in our development stages of our music video, and luckily we were all still at the rough cut process, so any feedback would be appreciated and would help us with later editing for the final cut of our video. We received both positive feedback and constructive criticism.

- The constructive criticism was that the narrative was good but they really preferred the performance of the video, they wondered if the narrative is overall needed in the video. Matt and I will see what our teachers Pete, Nick and Barney suggest and if it turns out the narrative isn't needed then we will leave it out for the final music video.

- All of them really enjoyed the silhouette effect we had created with the lighting, and thought this worked really well with the music video and the music track.

- They liked the fact that as we hadn't been able to use the junction to film, the hall we did use was a really effective space to use, and thought it was a great idea and a great place to film.

This was mostly all the feedback we received, and afterwards Simon said he thought all the work was of really high quality work - and this proves the hypothesis that working in a work related area as opposed to just in the classroom really does make a difference and does help considerably, as we received help from all the industry professionals such as a lighting technician etc. He even would like a CD of all the finished work to showcase at the junction etc as he thought all the videos were really high standard.