Whilst the general praise for the first cut of our video has been overwhelmingly positive, with a lot of praise being heaped on to the performances, direction and camera work, we have found that some of our audience have had trouble understanding the whole narrative. We obviously want to make the best video that we can and believe that a small number of shots may be hindering the video's success. As a result, I have rewatched the first cut and identified the small amount of changes that need to be made within the narrative:
This shot was originally written when the location that the male protagonist was running to was the room seen in the video, which we later changed in production to a bus stop for more dramatic effect. However, this shot appears to be the most confusing in the entire video, with the shot making audiences think that our female protagonist is dead or dying. As a result, we believe that the shot is out of place and unintentionally misguiding the audience and so we will not feature it in our final video.
These shots are included in the video to show that the female protagonist is cheating on the male protagonist with another man (played by myself). However, some people failed to realise that my character was a different character to Callum's, meaning that this side of the narrative is not recognised. As a result, we will reshoot these shots to make this narrative plot-point clearer to the audience.
This shot is meant to show the two protagonists arguing, highlighting that their relationship has a negative side. However, we don't feel that this shot reflects the emotions we were after, so we will be reshooting this shot for our final video.
