Music Video Roughcut Feedback

During a free period at Sixth Form, I showed some of my peers and friends my music video roughcut, and asked them to type their comments on this blog post underneath their name. This is what they said...


Emily Frosdick:
"I really liked this, it was really emotional and went really well with the music. The actors were also really good choices and felt like the characters were real. The only things I would change were to have different fillers to shows the differences between family/friend/boyfriend love, as well as maybe having more of the shots of the diary."

Caroline Lovick
"Some of the shots are amazing, I really like the close up ones especially when the boyfriend gives his girlfriend the flower! The scene where the mum gives her daughter a car is so heart warming as well and I love its placement in the music video in terms of the lyrics!"

Chloe Rix
"I like how relevant the music video is to people in our age group, and like the overall idea you have for the video, but I think you should do something to make it completely different and have a bit of a plot twist, I know you're planning to incorporate scenes of an older mollie which you haven't put in the roughcut, and I think that would be perfect!"

Miles Weldon
"The part where the entire music video is re-caped really fast is my favourite part! I also like the transitions you've used as it makes the video flow a bit more. I think the end has so much going on in it though thats the only thing, maybe you could cut some scenes out and it would be more focused"


Dannielle Peeke Vout
"The whole idea is so cute, I really like how positive and uplifting the video is, theres no heartbreak but it still makes the audience feel slightly bittersweet because of the situation. I also like how close the characters all look, the casting is great!"




My Reaction.

I am so happy with the comments I have received, especially as the music video isn't even finished yet! I agree with Chloe in saying the roughcut needs more originality, which is why I decided to mix it up a bit and include scenes of an older version of mollie, to make the video more interesting.

I also agree with Miles when he says theres too much going on in the ending, I am thinking about  having the music video end with Mollie leaving rather than coming home, as this will give me this means the ending can be less fast paced. I want the video to be more relaxing and uplifting over anything else.

I can't wait until I can film the scenes with Mollies grandma playing the older version of mollie, as I think it will really tie the whole video together! Also, to add more originality, I have decided to cover the song myself and pretend it is Mollie singing it for the music video, as I sing and Mollie does not.