Evaluation 3) -What Have You Learnt From Your Audience Feedback?

Our school held a creative arts evening to showcase our success in all arts suhjects through textiles, art, dance, drama and media. We felt that this was a great opportunity to premier our music videos to a large audience so we can gain some audience feedback:

Below is the introduction video:

Hey There Delilah At The Creative Arts Evening

Audience Feedback 1

Audience Feedback 2

Audience Feedback 3

Audience Feedback 4

Narrative: It was clear through feedback from audience members that the narrative was capturing and in a sense reception theory worked well for there favourite element was the genre of romance. They were lured in by the strength of there love and wanted to feel the same love as they do. It was mentioned many times that they liked the romantic shots of holding hands, hugging and romantic walks, this shows that the genre was portrayed well. They understood that the narrative was about separation and the audience said that they were moved by this and the use of black and white, created a mellow mood for not only the narrative but for the audience, this shows that we were successful in bringing out emotion through acting and the story line. The setting of the lake was mentioned by an audience member as they felt it was romantic, and the trees and sun in the background helped to bring out a happy mood when they are together, an example of pathetic fallacy. 

Mise En Scene: Audience feedback showed that mise en scene helped to represent the band member as an indie pop rock artist, through the beanie he was wearing and casual shirt buttoned to the top to create the casual smart look. Also the use of skinny jeans helped to reflect this genre as it is what is stereotyped. Because the mise en scene reflected the genre the audience mentioned that it helped them to get a feel of their personality and style of music. An audience member noticed how the guitar was the only instrument used, they mentioned how it made the video more soft and romantic as it reflected the indie pop rock genre but it is also a stereotyped romantic gesture to sing and play the guitar to someone. An audience member also mentioned how there was a red motif throughout the music video, they said that the red motif clearly helped to represent the genre of love and give a warm vibe to the music video.

Camera Shots: Abstract camera shots were frequently mentioned by audience members, they said it helped to break up the band shots to the narrative so that there was more of a mixture. They realized how they all symbolized something, like the duck swimming away was just like Delilah leaving and the bee looking for food was like Tom looking for Delilah. It was mentioned how the sun effectively shone through the trees creating a glare on the camera. The train shots wherein my face reflected in window was said to have been very effective as it helped to portray my sad emotion and effectively the trees in the background shone through as well which made an effective zoom in. The audience mentioned how having happy shots in colour and sad shots in black and white helped to differentiate the emotions I was feeling but also made our music video individual from everyone. Lastly an audience member commented on the band filming and how the movement of the camera made them move with it, they particularly liked the close up on the fingers playing the guitar.