Blog 20- Evaluation and Feedback of the Video

This blog contains the evaluation of my video, the camera work involved, feedback and other comments on the overall project.

I have decided to produce some of the evaluation in PowerPoint form as it will be more effective in making comparisons.

Here is the link to my evaluation of the overall project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvTnbhs1Bg&feature=youtube_gdata

Link to how my video compares to my storyboard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pbssHmJCs

Feedback and what I have learnt from it:

I will use FaceBook for feedback, conduct interviews with several people and use questionnaires to gain an overal understanding on what others think of the production and use this to reflect on the project and explain what I would do differently now.

My feedback via Facebook/ YouTube was mainly peoples overall opinion of my video; there were no set questions they had to answer. So this method of feedback was successful in allowing me to draw conclusions on any major problems with the video and what people thought was good etc.

Questionnaires via Email:

This method of feedback I felt was suitable as it allowed people to fill the questionnaire out at anytime as they could email it back to me rather then paper questionnaire; I feel this method is suitable for Lady Gaga as she is constantly trying new things and dvelops like technology does.

I used Qualitative questions to gain in depth information ad I feel Quantitative questions don't get the persons view but just a simple yes or no answers; there's no room for creativity.

I used this method to gain an understanding on whether my video was seen to suite its genre, Lady gaga's style and if it was on t.v would it be watched.

Video interviews via Skype and face to face:

These interviews were interesting as the other two methods had been conducted without me being there so to actually have a conversation about the music video was interesting. I had a set list of qualitative questions because that would make the answers more easy to compare and draw conclusions from.

I did two face to face filmed interviews and I did two via skype this is because some people were unavailable to meet up but wished to participate in the interviews. I uploaded the interviews to YouTube and posted the links below :

Link 1: Sean 15: face-face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMrD5IuosI

Link 2: Hannah 18: via skype:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glzLz9lhxqA

Link 3: Rebekah 18: via Skype

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrFqKYr6Sw

What I learnt from my Feedback:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VsFMrBT2Ao&feature=youtube_gdata

Blog 19- Finished Video

I have uploaded our final video to YouTube and the link is below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-uVUYucLt0

Blog 18- Creative Camera Use And Editing.

I really like the technique we used here during filming; it looks like the actor is floating in the air. When editing the light that came under the curtain we added a blue tint to the light and made them brighter. This made them appear as spotlights which I felt made it really suited to our artist.

We used a tracking shot to look like the person was being followed we then edited the shot and within our video faded from colour to grey scale and then back to colour. I really liked this effect as it made it look abstract and also fitted into our story well and highlights the characters loneliness.

We achieved this shot by using a zoom into a extreme close up; to highlight the lip's and the brush strokes. i really like this use of camera as I felt it tied in with the lyrics of leaving, I also think it is something that Lady Gaga would use as it looks very artistic which is a style that is a regular occurrence in her videos.

We achieved this shot by placing the camera on floor level, and positioning the actress lying horizontal to the camera. I really like how its on the same level as her face and feel it was a good shot within our video as it added a difference to the sequence of shots leading up to it.