What have you learned from your audience feedback?

My audience feedback was generally positive, with almost every single observation remarking on the humour factor in the video. This signifies that my aim to make my rap video unconventional and comical imitating the styles of Busta Rhymes and Dizzee Rascal was successful. However, the majority of the feedback I had was from my friends and associates. This creates a bias due to the fact that they know and the notion of seeing me dressed as a spider would seem funny to them regardless of the video’s content.

Nevertheless, I did receive some feedback from random and unknown sources on youtube.com.

Here is one:

“Some shots are a bit dark and some are slightly out of sync. Other than that it is very good. The perspective shots are quite effective and high angle and low angle shots are used well.” Eithy1593.

From this I learnt that the blue light, although created the atmosphere I was looking for, it meant that the characters could be hard to see, thus jeopardizing the viewing pleasure and understanding for my audience. The comment about the perspective shots being quite effective was just the feedback I was searching for, considering the time and effort it took to singlehandedly construct these shots using ‘X’s sellotaped onto the floor in order for my characters to stand on. This was used to make sure the distance was perfect without the characters being out of shot.

The second such comment follows:

“funny as fuck ! good that you interpreted the characters into the video although in some places some of the video was out of sync with the song !” ScotneyP.

This supported the first comment’s remark that parts of my video were slightly out of synch with the lyrics of the song. This was partially due to the quality of the video after transferring it to youtube.com, and also due to the quality of editing software I used. In the future, rather than using iMovie, I will use more sophisticated software to get the perfect finish. My timekeeping also greatly affected the quality of the product, as the length of time taken to produce the costumes used in the production meant that I was rushed for time in the editing stages. Next time, I will ensure that the costume making process does not in anyway jeopardize the overall quality of the end product.