Evaluation

3) What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

- Audience feedback is what made us change our complete idea for the better and re-shoot our whole sequence again. Even before posting it on youtube we got our class, teacher and other people from around the school to watch our footage so far. There was mixed responses, but a main factor that was bought up was the fact that our performance from our performer was not believable as the image we wanted to portray. There was nothing we could do to change this through the stages of editing, it was only something that could be changed through a re-shoot. Of course we all didn't want to have to go through all the filming again, as we had spent so long doing it before but the new footage came across so much easier and more understanding to the audience that it made such a vast improvement to our outcome. Using a more simple idea really made me realise that they work more effectively in the way that our audience is more interested as they can clearly understand our concept. To film this new footage we came up with the idea of using a sleepover scene and still the performance scene in the costume cupboard. When choosing a loaction for the shoot, we couldnt agree on a place to shoot so I had to putfoward my house and we shot there, another critcism was the use of different situations/shots. Whilst I filmed the others I looked at different elements including pillow fight, getting ready, dancing/messing about and then falling onto the bed at the end to signal the end of the evening/video. The main criticism was there wasn't enough shots or they were too long. We looked into this by chopping together bits of the performance and the sleepover scene to show the atmosphere in short bursts to the audience. After we looked at this, we looked into other ways of improving it, and after staying at school to edit we accomplished how to do a 3-way split screen which I feel really shows the sense of friendship and the group getting ready. I feel that the sleepover scene was a really big step up from our original idea, and shows much easier the sense of fun.
The only problem that I would improve if to come back to it was the criticism that the photo's on the digipak and poster need to be brighter to show more of Lucy Star's personality, I feel that the digipak and poster still does our artist justice but if to go back I would brighten these in a re-shoot just to push out her personality even further.