Final Video

Promotional Trailer Final - Matt, Tara & Tim from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is the final version of our fiver promo. I liked our rough cut, but after the feedback i much prefer this one. I think it holds together much better as a video, and generally makes more sense. We also cut it a bit more so it is slightly shorter and i think that makes it easier to maintain viewer concentration throughout the whole thing, as it got a bit boring after 2 minutes anyway.

I think moving the interviews to further towards the end was a good idea, and i think putting a bit of extra text in was a smart move too. While simply having text saying "Get £2 for each ticket you sell" may make sense to us, we have it in context and know roughly how the fiver works. If you saw this either online or at the event, you probably wouldn't realise that you were given x amount of tickets to sell to make some money. I think putting that in as text was a good idea as it just makes it that but clearer to potential applicants.

I also think putting in that you need 'minor gig experience' was good because it doesn't say that if you've never really played to a large crowd you can't apply, but it also stops people who have never played in front of any people before applying and wasting time.

I think using much more live footage, cut quicker and using the lights and colours as much as physical movement to build up tension was a really good idea. Cutting the interviews was a good move because they really slowed down the video and many of them didn't really add anything to it. Removing the 'cut-to-blacks' at the beginning made the video better because it looked alright but if there's nothing happening for even a split second it slows down the pace of the video.

I think the video is much stronger after considering the feedback and changing it. I really liked it before, but it is a better made video now. I think getting the feedeback from the UNiversity students was a great idea because it showed us a different way of looking at things. It was good for some people to be told it was shit and they should do something else, but it was also great for our group to be told it wasn't terrible, especially for the time we made it in. This made me feel good, because someone who has been working on things similar to us but at a much higher level seemed almost impressed with our work, which is great, but he also didn't hesitate to say 'whoever put that in, remove it. It sucks', which i think was good as Pete and Nick are a lot more careful with what they say to us.