Questionnaire

As we have finished our first draft to our music video, we wanted to know where we could go from there and ensure that we perfected it to suit our target audience. To do so, we decided to make a questionnaire to hand out to peers both male and female, as this is the aimed audience, for their feedback on our video so that we know what areas in particular we need to work on.

1.      What part of the video stood out most for you?

2.      Was there anything you disliked?

3.      Does watching this music video encourage you to go out and listen to more of their music?

4.      Does the music video contain what you would expect it to?

5.      Are there any changes you would make to the video?

6.      Do you think the way it is edited is effective, mainly the effects?

7.      Is the video lip synced in time with the lyrics?

8.      Overall do you enjoy the music video?

9.      Any other comments?

February 14th

During this week, our whole group have been very involved in finishing the first draft of our music video. Jamie has been working mainly on it, due to him having the footage on his laptop, but the rest of us made sure we gave as much input as we could to our own opinions of the video. Jamie seemed very involved in the effects of the video, but it was important that we finished filling the song with clips of footage first and to ensure that there were plenty of cuts during the chorus of the video too.

Individually, I have been working on the behind-the-scenes for the DVD Extra's. Firstly i've put all the footage from the behind the scenes of the main shoot in, and i'm awaiting the interviews to incorporate them in as well, and i'm also making sure we include some of the live footage we recorded which wasnt used for the final music video. I have also made a start to the 'Meet The Band' feature that we're hoping to include. Over half term, I think the rest of the group are planning on taking out a camera to film interviews with the band which I cannot attend due to myself being on holiday.

First Draft of the Music Video

DVD Extra's - 'Meet The Band'

Our group came up with an idea for another DVD extra that would be quite a fun way to introduce our band other than the 'behind the scenes' would be a 'Meet the band' style interview. This interview would be a way for the viewers to really get to know the band, asking different questions and seeing how well they know each other.



This is a video of a band called 'We The Kings' which feature the interviewer asking them a series of questions on royal families and monarchs which is relative to the name of their band. With this in mind, we came up with the idea of coming up with a list of questions about Starfish (because of the name of their band) and the ocean in general. I think this is just a way to get to know the down-to-earth nature of the band, which we wanted to perceive in our music video so would be very relevant.


The band Amely show a 'meet the band' video here, which is available to view on their Record labels Youtube page.  After researching the band further, they are a new rock band, which is why I think its a good idea to introduce each of the members showing what they all play. In this video it does just that. It begins by showing the bands name in their logo style and then featuring the band members talking about themselves and their other members. This is a way of showing the viewers who they really are and how they act round each other and these interviews are also edited within clips of the band performing and behind the scenesas well, which has given me some really good ideas for the way our interview is edited together.

DVD Extra's - Behind The Scenes

As I've been working on editing together some of the behind the scenes of our music video, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at some artists behind the scenes work and see how they edited it all together and what approach they took to do it.


This is the behind the scenes video to Taylor Swifts song 'You Belong With Me' and shows more of a long documentary than a short 5 minute feature. The behind the scenes is in 4 parts, due to the various location chances and mass production of the video. It manages to blend in the instrumental of the song as a background to the video footage shown which features various amounts of interviews on the move. The first one shown is when the singer herself introduces the beginning of the behind the scenes and talks a bit about the shoot ahead, the weather and how she is feeling. I think it's important to include this as it gives the viewers and inside to what the artist's schedual is like and the emotions they are feeling too.
As well as interviewing the main star of the music video, there are also several mini interviews with members of the band that are less important, but still play a vital role within the music track. Thes interviews normally run while images of behind the scenes are shown which keeps the audience interested in the clips because they feature the interviews themselves.
There are several little interviews with the director as well here he talks about how the artist is performing, what he wants to be created and what is happening on the shoot at the current time. I think this is also very important as it gives the viewers and insight to the creative mind of the director and his approach to this music video, whilst also showing what kinds of jobs he has and how he is very mush in control of the whole shoot.



In the behind the scenes for Maroon 5 video 'Never Gonna Leave This Bed' there is a much less professional approach, as it mainly consists of roughly edited of clips put together to show the camera filming the artist. The video features annotations on it which explain in some areas what's happening without blacking out the sound. I think I'd like to make our music video behind the scenes more professional with effective editing so that it runs smoothly through and shows a journey from the beginning to the end.



In the 'behind the scenes' for Greyson Chance's music video,  it is very much introducing the artist as he's new on the scene. This is similar to what we need to create, to make sure that the viewers establish the artist (or group in our case), and maybe feature a longer behind the scenes to establish a 'get to know' the band. I also like how the footage shows exclusive features of the music video as well as its being filmed. I think this gives a real insight to how each shot was thought through and put together, which I would definitly like to include in our own 'behind the scenes'.