Audience Feedback

Strengths

·         - Good use of audience it helps to create a sense of realism.

·         - Effective use of characters, good.

·         - Hand held camera shots

·         - Close up shots

·         - Identification of lead singer and band

·         - Lighting

·         - Eye contact with lead singer

·         -‘The video follows a sense of genre quite well since the majority of it is performance based, which is what    you associate with the punk rock genre’.

·         - ‘A key good scene was when Chris (lead singer) walked past Catherine (lead female) as it worked well with the narrative’.

·         - ‘Very obvious what the genre is’.

·         - Good lighting in the performance

·         - Good introduction of band.

·         - ‘Captures audience straight away from introduction’

·         - ‘Really like the lighting when they are playing the guitars’

·         - ‘The camera shot in the park setting fits in very well’.

·         - Variation of camera shots.

·         - ‘Like how you introduce each character at the beginning’

·         - ‘Like the shots used’

·         - ‘Looks like a real band’

·         - Fast edits works well with style of song

·         - Transitions show flashbacks clearly

·         - Close up shots of members introduce them well

·         - Long shots performing show band as one

·         - Costume links to genre

·         - Instruments are expected

·         - ‘Flashing lights in band setting typical of music videos and creative- good effect.

·         -‘Good video, varying shots make the video fast paced and interesting’.

·         -‘Band is a good generic convention showing unity’.

·         -‘There are good camera shots highlighting the musical instruments the main focus of Indie bands overall there is a very good balance of narrative and performance’

Weaknesses

·         - The characterisation of the female lead

·         - The lead male pushing away the female character is not clear

·         - Singing out of sync

·         - ‘A key bad scene was when Chris was singing at the camera as the singing at the end did not match his mouth’.

·         - ‘Shaking camera movement when he is walking down the street, otherwise good shots and movement’.

·         - ‘More narrative, just a little’.

·         -‘The storyline just stops halfway, it doesn’t make sense’

·         - Out of sync due to incompletion

·         - Good song choice

·         - Confusing why singer wears headphones when performing

·         - Cuts from band jumping to standing still

·         - ‘Cuts to girls reaction to push later than expected = confusing’.

·         - Don’t see girl until after singer and drummer talk about her.