Thursday 15 December 2011

Commentary Evaluation

We did a lot of planning and thinking when it came to our commentary as we wanted to include points that we thought were key and explain them to the best of our ability. We didn't incorporate as many images as we wanted due to a limited amount of time. We included images at the start of our commentary of screen shots from the music video that inspired us by Midnight Beasts- Booty Call. As we state in our commentary, we really liked the use of colourful images throughout the video and the random yet funny performance from all three artists. We wanted our piece to be similar in the sense that we wanted to depict a fun, quirky, upbeat style.


We decided that the shots where we were talking would be in black and white. For the reason that we didn't want any colour in the shot to distract the audiences attention from what we were saying. We also wanted the images that we used as examples to stand out in the commentary. We captured sequences from all five members of our group talking about specific points in our music video and answering the specific questions. We decided to swap and change each pair of people talking to 'spice' things up a bit and keep the audience interested.

If we could do the commentary again, I would use a lot more images when referring to main points and keep them displayed on the screen for longer. I would also make the commentary more visually and interactively appealing from an audience's point of view. I would do this by using different transitions for each piece of footage such as fades, wipes, dissolves etc. This would make our commentary more interesting. I think that the lack of images lets our commentary down as the audience are not able to see examples of what each person is talking about. If more images were displayed, the audience would have a better understanding of each point made.

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