Feedback from Bournemouth

Before we went to Bournemouth, our videos were shown to a group of MA students who would give us feedback when we went there. We had a crazy Scottish guy. He was nice. Here is his feedback:

At the opening, you can hear the crowd over the music without ever being shown a crowd. Why? Drop the audio of the crowd.

At 7 seconds, the shot cuts before you are shown the bands on the door. Why did you do this? Is the shot too long?

The crowd footage at the beginning is far too dark, almost silhouetted. Do you have anything better? - Try showing and empty room, fade out. Fade in to a room filling up, fade out. Fade in to a room full of people.

15 - 26 seconds, like cutting to the beat, does it need to cut to black? Slows down the pace and excitement, still cut to beat, but w/o black.

After showing the singer walking offstage, you don't need to cut back to him onstage. Keep cutting to backstage area.

When first singer comes off the stage, you don't need the bit about the heat. Just cut to the audio of him saying "Quality. One of the best nights i've ever had"

You also don't need the shot of the bassist - who cares, and he doesn't say anything great.

Get rid of boiling point. Might not be nice but it's a cut throat world. MURDER YOUR BABIES!

Guitar shot at 1m 41 is far too long with nothing happening. Work in frames, not seconds. Nothing should lag or become static.

Last section is far too slow. Promos should always be fast because you want the audience to feel something towards it. The shots chosen are all wrong.

The whole thing lacks structure. Why start with the bands coming offstage?

£2 per ticket text isn't held long enough.

Some shots are far too long. People should be having fits at the end of it.

I think this feedback is fair, it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been, and was all very constructive. I agree with basically everything he said, but we are not entirely removing Boiling Point as including them was one of the things Simon liked about the video as it included a whole new audience showing the younger band. Some of the things he suggested we do we can't as he was using Final Cut Pro and we use Express, but most of it was fine.