III: What have you learned from your audience feedback?;

Here is a tagcrowd of the most used words throughout the feedback I received for our final piece.
The feedback we've got back for this is short but has quite an impact. A few have said it looks and has aspects of a professional music video and that the performance and effects work very well. They also really like the ghostly trail effect, although a few have still said the spinning goes on for too long. The main problem with this is because we wanted to have it continuously through the middle eight of the track and had underestimated how long this part actually is.

Here is the feedback from proffesional film maker Ben Gee. I used Wordle to create this tag cloud which is just full of what he said about our video. He said it's very proffessional looking and the aspects and effects work well overall.

The first feedback for our pitch:

As you can see, the main inter textual references popped up the most, Alice in Wonderland and Snow White. The feedback we got for our initial idea, our treatment and pitch was very positive and people liking the ideas we had come up with for the video but also wondering how it was possible to re-create and where about we would shoot the video.
The changes we made from our original pitch were:
We didn't use a shadow figure, however the ghostly trail gives the sense of this
We could not use a suitable stop-motion effect, even though the trail was conceived with what we did find.
There was no rabbit


Here is the feedback from our rough cut:

The most negative feedback we got for our roughcut was about the spinning going on too long.
The most positive was about the use of shots, our lipsync and the costume used throughout the rough cut's footage.
For the spinning, we added the ghost effect over the top and also did a cut away of our performer standing by the church. After the lyrical verse during the middle eight we also added the girl's eyes over the top for a creepy effect, making the audience unclear of what's going on.

Here is a screengrab of the spinning sequence before we added the effects.


And here it is again with the added effects.

Another change we made was when she's walking(during the cut aways) we would add this trail effect again to give the video even more of a creepy atmosphere.