Evaluation question- What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Today I created a questionnaire on survey monkey in order to gain some audience feedback on my Music video. The link is attached here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DP9XWB2
I have also created a second survey for people to answer about my digipak and webpage designs. This is also attached below:
Click here to take survey

In addition to this I intend to hold a focus group of 2-3 people and ask them their opinions of my music video and digipack/webpage designs.
The questions I intend to ask are;

• Did you enjoy the music video?
• Do you know what the narrative was showing?
• Do you think that the narrative links to the lyrics?
• How do you think we could improve the music video?
• What did you enjoy about the video?

And for the webpage/Digipak;

• Do you think that the webpage looks interesting? Why?
• Does the digipak appeal to you? Why?
• Do they relate to eachother and to the music video?
• What do you think I could do to make the webpage/digipak more interesting and appealing to a target audience?

Final Video

We managed to finish and finally upload our final completed version of the music video and as we have different album names we've uploaded the video twice with different logos and album titles.

During the upload process we had a lot of trouble with actually getting our video to go onto youtube we even tried uploading straight to blogger and this is the result.
Even when we first attempted to upload it to youtube the result was the same as this.  

Final- Digipak

Here I have a copy of my final Digipak design. 

Final-Webpage

Here I am including a screenshot of my webpage final design. 

editing

Today we were looking at more effects in order to see whether or not there might be others that we could add to the narrative sequence to separate it further and make it look more interesting and effective. 

When we were looking through the effects we found one called line art which we felt looked really interesting and was very effective in that it created an almost cartoon effect Which we felt helped to further separate the narrative from the performance aspect of the video. Below I have screenshots of a moment from every narrative sequence showing the colours we chose and the effect that they can achieve. 

Here I am showing the sequence as it is all in order and finished in order to show the many different tracks that we used and the difficulty of arranging everything. 

Editing update

For todays lesson we were looking at the different effects to use on the narrative sequence in order to make these shots look better and more interesting as well as separating the narrative further from the performance and adding to the dreamy effect we were intending to create through use of fade transitions. One thing that we decided on was that our narrative sequences would all have slight colour tints and each narrative would be assigned a separate colour, with the first being red, the second being blue and the final purple. We chose these colours in particular as we wanted to relate to the patriotism of the band and we chose to use purple as a symbolic representation of the band as a unit since when blue and red combine it makes the colour purple. 

We have also looked at using the effect above which is a combination of several different effects. It uses a mixture of colour balance, dazzle, solarise and a slight brightness adjustment. We liked this effect overall but realised that when we tried to use it on other shots the effects were not working and didn't look as good or give the same effect. As such we decided that this effect would be one that we use only on the elevator/lift shots as this would mean that the lift shots are slightly different and also remain consistent with each other. 

We also added in a trails effect on the lift shots in order to add some extra movement and further enforce the dreamy effect that we have attempted to create within this sequence.

Editing update

Today I managed to mostly finish the sequence for the chessboard narrative;

One issue that arose when editing today was that there may not be enough time left in the song to complete this section of narrative, as such I've now adjusted the opacity of a few shots to make narrative progress faster. this also adds in another dimension to the footage and relates back to the bass sequence within this music video. I also needed to do this as I needed to show the guitar solo at the same time as showing the narrative sequence and really this was the only way for me to do both.

I have also adjusted the opacity of this clip as I liked both angles and thought that it might be overall more effective if I were to show them both. 

This has so far been the most difficult section to edit, as a result of the lack of time and difficulty with showing the guitar solo.

Editing progress so far...

During this lesson we needed to create a montage sequence showing our bassist as they were moving about an art room and adding to a picture he was creating. However as we were thinking about this Teni and I decided that we wanted to use the whole shot when we were walking around the table and looking at the mess of images he had on the table. Therefore we thought that the best way in which to show this shot while still showing Perry and also fitting in to a suitable amount of time, was to speed up the shot of him arranging his work and making the other shot an overlay so that they would both run at once. We also sped up the rotating shot so that the shot of Perry didn't look odd or out of place. 

We then realised that we needed to fix a problem with our fade effects, as they were starting after they needed to meaning that the bottom shot was showing before the overlay began which was quite a noticeable issue. As such we removed the fade and extended the clip so that they would fit in better. 

We also added in a fade between every shot for a smoother transition, however upon reviewing what we had we realised that they were very unnecessary and the transitions worked well without them. As such we opted to remove all of the fade effects after the overlay stopped before that section of narrative was ending. 

We  have now completed the first 2 minutes of our video leaving us another 2 minutes for the final narrative section and 2 more performance clips.

Digipack and Website Progress

I decided that while I'll not include a background I will be including coloured boxes behind the subheadings to break up the page a bit and make it easier to read etc. Originally I was going to use the same font for the whole page as it is the font I use on the digipak back cover. However having discussed this with my teacher and some members of my group I've decided to use the font from my digipak on the subheadings while the main body of text will have a different font in order to fit in with the simplicity of these webpages in the examples I have researched and also to make it easier to read.  

I am now finished with my webpage design. I feel that the design is quite effective and clearly does all that it needs to do in order to fit with the wants and expectations of fans of the band/the genre. I have included links to pages that will tell them more about the band, about news, about tour dates and the best ways in which to contact them. I have also included several means of social networking involving the band and information so that the fans will feel more connected.

I have also finished my Digipak design for which I have used several tones of blue, red and sepia/white. I have done this to once more enforce the suggestion of patriotism and also add in some synergy between this and the music video which also uses a variety of tones of red and blue.