Anaylsis throughout the filming

As we began to start filming we decided that the best policy of keeping to the right style of genre was to ask the same type audience that we asked to fill out the questionnaire, what their personal opinion was and what type of and improvements we could make to create a more 80's synth pop feel to the music video. Once we filmed our first piece of picture and edited the film correctly into the time of music we gathered around 5-8 willing suggestionists;  suggestionists included fellow media student, students for the upper and lower sixth, family and teachers; as we showed them the minority of film we had and asked them a series of simple questions. (Examples: If you had to, what type of genre would you say this video is aiming at? and... are the any suggestions on how to make the video better?) As this was our first time filming and had little knowledge of what to expect, the response from the suggestionists were clear that the film needed to connect more with the synthpop genre and also have more variety with shot types; as it apparently looked more like a "TV soap" rather than a high speed/ upbeat, synthpop music video. We took this constructive criticism and filmed the whole sequence again, making noticeable changes when filming. For example we changed the cast of our actors and instead of wearing normal clothes we used an 80's style of clothing. As well as altering the mise-en-scene we also altered our filming techniques; instead of constant mid shots and over the shoulder shots, we also began to implement "the five shot sequence" and extreme close up's to add detail and variety of shots. We copied this procedure throughout the filming process making sure that we did not leave anything to chance.