PLAN - Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I am planning on making a interview style answer to this question. This will be the skeleton script of what I say in the podcast I make for my evaluation question 3.

Here are some of the positives that I learned from the feedback and that they particularly liked:

• The storyline
• The transition between the story and the live performance
• The ending (spray paint and fade to the sky)
• The song choice
• the framing of the shots "interesting and you can see the emotion on the actors face"
•  The wide screen effect

But also they gave me a few pieces of constructive criticism:

• Lost their attention - needs to be more vibrant
• lip syncing is out at he start
• didn't understand the hidden messages "like the hat and the bottle dropping"
• Titles at the start are a 'bit shabby' and can be improved on

I decided to change the starting titles and scene because of the audience feedback. They said that they didn't understand the meaning of the hat so I was thinking of ways to make it more apparent. After some consideration I thought that by making the screen black and white while he is not wearing the hat and then making it colour when he is wearing the hat will show that the hat is the catalyst in this change. This taught me that when I am making a video that includes hidden messages I need to use lighting, effects, framing, sound and mise-en-scene in an effective way. After applying the effects to my scenes involving the hat the feedback was much more positive as they understood that the hat symbolised his depression. I'm still not %100 happy with the way I showed these messages because I could have used my framing and camerawork in a better way to show this.
I will now keep this in mind when I want to get a message to the viewer and use all aspects of filming that are available to their full extent.