Class feedback- group presentation

This is the feedback we got after presenting our song ideas to our class.

Hopeless, Halsey
Many people had mixed feeling about the instrumental in the middle of the songs, many people disliked this and thought is might be difficult to keep the music video interesting.

Roman Holiday, Halsey
Our class preferred this song more than Hopeless. our peers preferred the beat and it was thought this music video would have a better narrative.

Disciples, Tame Impala
This was the least favorite song of the three, our peers didn't like this as much.

In conclusion to our feedback, as a group we decided to continue to look for a song to use in our music video as we were not happy to use one of the three above.

Similar genre videos

The camera angles in this video are not common, and using shots similar to the slow moving angled ones that this video has would help to make our music video more interesting. Also, the lack of busy movement and sticking to simplicity may be a good contrast for some of our shots.



The vintage, vignette-style effect that this video has would be very interesting to include on some shots in our video to help create a more old fashioned style. This would also allow us to add B-Roll footage in our video, and this can help the audience to connect more with the band, therefore having an increased interest in them.



The performance by the band accompanied by the camera work really suits the fast pace of the song and the genre of it also. Incorporating a mix of quick-paced and slow motion sequences is very engaging.

Audience Task

How do you consume music?
I listen to music every single day, often when I am studying in school or walking home but I also tend to listen to music when I am playing a video game and have the music on in the background. In the morning I will listen to Radio 1 when I am making my breakfast (which most commonly plays chart songs) but my go-to genres for music are Rap, Rock and 90's songs. Lyrics are personally very important to me, and I enjoy learning the lyrics of songs, which is why I like rap music so much.

I listen to music using Spotify mainly, but use other sites and apps such as SoundCloud, BBC iplayer radio and Shazam to discover new songs that I hear. I don't tend to watch music channels on the TV, simply because I don't watch TV all that much anymore and when I do I watch either dramas or documentaries, but I have recently become more inclined to watch music videos on YouTube as the videos on there have become much more interesting than previous music videos.

My most listened to artists include Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Def Leppard, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Destiny's Child and Missy Elliott.

Prelim evaluation

My group for the prelim task included Lucy Hocart and Josh Yates. We decided to recreate the music video of 'You're A Germ' by Wolf Alice because the video emulates a vintage horror film and includes a lot of creative shots and angles. We found matching up the whip pan to be quite hard and also getting realistic fake blood for the end scene. The set up of the house in the actual video was difficult to recreate as that house has a very specific layout, but we managed to flip certain shots to try and match up the house layout.

Class presentation

The feedback we received from the class regarding the songs we had chosen in this presentation made us decide to choose a completely different song all together.

Artists name

We decided to name our artist 'Isla'.

We asked everyone in our class, our teachers, friends and family to vote on what they thought the best name was. 
When we researched other artists called Isla, we found that there were no famous singers already on the market with that name and so came to the conclusion that we did not need to use a surname to  market her.

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