Feedback Questionnaire

by Emma
After we finished our rough cut of our music video, we decided to get some feedback from the general public as well as media and drama students from the college. We thought this would help us gain ideas for our evaluation, as well as helping to make a few adjustments to the video that we felt were needed.
Questionnaire:

Please circle the following:


I am: Male Female


I am: 16 17 18+


I prefer: Rock and Roll Pop RnB Metal Trance/Techno


Other music preferences: .......................................................


1. Did you understand the storyline/plot of the video?


Yes No


2. Do you think the video has been put together well?


Yes No


3. What did you think of the colour effects used?


Poor Ok Different Interesting Good It suits the genre


4. Please define your hilight of the video:


5. Please write any critical comments about what you think should be changed:


6. As we tried to give the impression that there were lots of people in several scenes, did you think we portrayed this?


Bad Good Impressive I didn't notice there weren't many people

7. If you had a choice, what would you add?


More Band scenes More Factory scenes More of the lead girl


Other......................................................


8. What did you expect to see judging from the introduction of our video?


A gig A love story Ludlow Castle shots A Black and White video A story based round the musician


Other....................................................

9. Did you like the introduction?


RESULTS

1. Did you understand the storyline?
Yes 22
No 1

2. Do you tink the video was well put together?

Yes 23

No 0

3. What did you think of the colour effects used? (Tick accordingly)

Poor 0

Okay 0

Different 0

Interesting 8

Good 6

It suits the genre 13

4. Please define your highlight of the video:

"Factory Scenes"

"Shakiness of the camera"

"The performance works well and I liked the Factory scenes"

"I think the band scenes were filmed really well"

"The Landlady"

"The Music and 60's theme"

"The Factory scenes"

"The Ending"

"The use of Black and White"

"Graveyard scene was a good ending, and the black and white footage of the band"

"The Ending"

"The Band"

"The musician by the grave at the end"

"The lead girl in the toilet, where the camera slowed down"

"The Drummer"

"The Band scenes"

"The fact that the band looked genuine"

"The Band"

"The fact you used college people as extras"

5. Please write any critical comments that could improve the video:

"None. Really enjoyed it"

"Edie being thrown out is not completely believable"

"Nope"

"Could be clearer about Factory"

"The lip synching was slightly out at times"

"The bit where the camera zooms in on Yona, it's not entirely clear that he mistakes her for the other girl, also it's not entirely clear that Owen is Andy Warhol"

"Maybe focus on the narrative a bit more. Some guitar miming could be more convincing"

"The lip synching could have been better"

"The fight between Warhol and Sedgwick could have been better"

"Nothing"

"Lip-synching"

"More transition effects"

"The sound at start, get rid of the clip with the tripod in, some of the edits were a bit sharp, and get rid of the clip where Warhol is talking" (Teacher's comments)

"The sound of the crowd jumps a bit"

"At the start when Matt didn't sing the right lyric"

6. Did we convey the idea that there were a lot of people present in some of the scenes?

Bad 0

Good 7

Impressive 9

I didn't notice there wern't many people 7

7. If you had the choice, what would you add?

More Band scenes 9

More Factory scenes 6

More of the Lead girl 5

Other:

"More close-ups"

(Some people didn't write anything down)

8. What did you expect to see from the introduction to our video? (Tick Accordingly)

A gig 15

A love story 5

Ludlow Castle 0

A Black and White video 5

A story based around the musician 0

9. Do you think the introduction worked?

I liked it 23

I didn't like it 0

10. Do you think we cast our 3 main leads well? (Tick Accordingly)

Poor

Ok 3

Good 15

They really suited the characters 8

Analysing DVD covers

By Jasmine

As we are creating a digipak, I have decided to analyse a music dvd cover. I have chosen to analyse the dvd 'MUSE', a popular rock band who has been around for many years.

When I had first looked at this DVD cover, I had thought that the front cover of the band members looked very similar to Queens music video, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. This is because in their video their face is highlighted with the use of top lighting. The poses that the band members use are quite sinister as they are looking straight towards you with no expressions on their face, possibly to create the idea of rebellion. I had noticed that the bands name has been used at the very top of the DVD, to point out clearly what they are called. I had researched other Muse CD and DVD covers and had found that the same title design and been used on all of them. This is probably because they have created a logo so that everyone can recognise what they should look out for if they wanted to purchase this from any store. I believe that the target market for this particular rock band is based mainly around teenagers and older adults around the age of 40. When we produce our DVD cover we will make sure that the logo of the band is quite noticeable, but making sure that it does not ruin the band members or other concepts that will be used for the front cover of the DVD.

Here is a CD I had discovered whilst researching CD/DVD covers:

I had found a CD of a band named 'The Velvet Underground and nico' which had an image of Warhol's famous banana on it. I was quite suprised as I had never realised that this was used for another bands design. As my idea for the cover was based on a banana tilted with either the musician or Warhol sitting on the banana in a silohette, i think that this is particularly ideal.

Planning for our digipak

These are our Ideas of what the DVD will look like:

*Silohette of Warhol sitting on a banana
*Band images on the front cover, main focus on musician
*A faded picture of Edie across the whole layout of the DVD, with other images sprawled out
*Use of tin foil to create the idea of 'Warhols factory' for the background

Ideas of what features we can add to the DVD cover:
*Title of band 'Spitfire
*The bands songs
*Quotes from various people
*Bar code
*Age rating certificate
*Bonus material
*The blurb
*Star ratings
*Buzz words
*Slogans
*The company

Ideas of what our CD cover will look like:
*Silohette of band
*An image of Edie after she has taken drugs
*Tin foil idea
*Banana idea
*Images of a drum kit with the bands name on it

Ideas of what features we can add to the CD cover:
*The bands songs
*The lyrics?(inside the cover)
*Bar code
*Quotes from various people
*Title of band 'Spitfire'

Rough cut of our video

By Kathrine Nielsen

This is the sample/rough cut we've produced and based on this we've done screenings followed by questionares in order to make any changes needed, based on the questionares the overall result was positive.

To Do List!!!!

*Finish Treatment All

*Finish "Vision" of our band "Spitfire" Emma and Kat

*Print Screen some of our editing process Jasmine

*Get Responses All
*Type up Questionnaire Results (before and after) Emma

*Put up Rough Draft of our video onto blog Kat
*Finish requested improvements for our video All


*Study other Digi Packs + Adverts All

*Write down ideas for Digi Pack + Advert All
*Start work on Digi Pack + Advert All


*Start work on our Evaluation All

Update

Thursday 25th February:

All of us worked on polishing up our Treatment for our Music video. Emma and Kat spent another 2 hours editing the video and adding the final touches to it.



Friday 26th February:
All of us continued working through the editing process.

Monday 1st March:
All of us filmed the trainstation scenes. Emma and Kat filmed the telephone scenes, finished the editing, burned our rough draft onto dvd and started writing up what our vision of the band "Spitfire"is.

Tuesday 2nd March:
Kat wrote up a questionnaire for our evaluation process, to give to people after they had watched our video. All of us showed it to the A2 Drama Group (who had appeared as extras in the band scenes), Matt (our musician), our A2 Media Group and some of the extras who appeared in the Factory scenes. We then collected in some of the responses and questionnaires, and had a brief look at them. Along with this, and a critical analysis from our Media teacher, Caroline, we started writing down ideas of what we could definitely improve, and some things we could try, to make our video better.

Our vision of the band 'spitfire'

By Emma Green and Kathrine Nielsen

We have tried over the past several months to find any sort of information or background to our selected artist 'spitfire' Yet looking through the creative commons website "www.jamendo.com" the website we initially found the song, along with wikipedia, youtube, metacafe and socialising networks such as myspace, facebook, bebo and twitter we have still been unable to find further information. We have decided to write up our own view as to how they might have been, target audience, what they aspire to do and generally how they got to where they are now.

Spitfire, a present band formed in the 90's of young men in their late teens to early 20's started out as a college project then later turned to proffesional performance. The group worked hard to get into gigs and to get auditions with music labels, they wanted to get a proper contract and do their own record. The road to this was extremely tough as their inspiration lay within late 50's to mid 60's musicians such as the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan, and there just does not seem to be space in the music industry for a band with these inspirations and therefore qualities, but they changed their style and gave their music a modern twist aiming at a younger rock'n roll audience allowing influence from such bands as Flogging Molly and Arctic Monkeys.

They have since been extremely successfull and are well known in Europe, the US and Japan with fast selling records going up every day. Yet because they started on the web they have a website (http://www.spitfire.co.uk/) on which their fans can contribute by uploading images themselves, videos, fan fiction ect, and on a regular basis fans are allowed to talk to the members of the band via a messenger service. On the website it is also possible for fans to buy merchandise (posters, CD's, DVD's signed books and little memorabillias made and produced by hand by the band members themselves - these also go onto online auctions which funds new up coming bands. A lot of things found on their website cannot be purchased in a shop but their latest "Spitfire - Greatest hits and most memorable music videos" can be bought either way, although you'd get a better deal online.

After the release of this the band members intend to have a break from music and touring and go into the music business by giving an opportunity to young people who started out like them, by starting their own record label.