Post-Production Questionnaire Results - Question 5

The fifth question we asked to our audience was 'Are there parts of the narrative that you think don't belong in our video? Anything we should take out?' This is another question that will give us a lot of feedback on how to improve our video to make it attractive to a wider range of audiences, which is the aim of all music videos. Even though we have a target audience we still want our video to engage an audience of all ages and both genders. By asking our audience about the narrative in particular and not shots, we are not getting too technical we are just focusing on the stor in relation to what the audience understands and what they think is necessary or what they think is too much and too difficult to understand.

Most of the answers we got were that there is nothing that we should remove, which is very nice to hear, however we do want constructive criticism, which is what we got from others answers.
One answer we got was 'too much happening maybe. Also, too angry when stood up.' The first part of this answer shows that maybe our idea to make the video in a montage way, is too confusing for the audience, and that maybe we should cut back on a few different shots and locations that we use. We use four locations; boy's house, dolls house, outside by bridge, outside girl's house. All these different shots, along with the vast range of props could be very confusing to the audience as the song is difficult to keep up with too, because of it's climatic structure. The second part of this answer suggests that maybe this audience member did not understand the emotional instability of the main character, which is definitely a problem. We did not want to make this boy act normally when he gets stood up, we wanted his reaction to be overdramatic because of the infatuation he has towards this girl, which is shown with the post it notes and pictures of her. If this message is not portrayed to the audience then they will think that the whole video is overdramatic and not believable. We may need to change the order of shots to show his obsession with the girl so that people will understand his emotional instability.
Another answer we got was 'him about to climb over the balcony'. This shot was added last minute and was something that we hoped our audience would pick up on because we weren't 100% sure if we wanted to keep it or not. The fact that one person out of fifteen picked up on it shows that we may need to do some more questionnaires and find out whether this is a step too far. This shot may suggest to some people the idea of suicide, however this shot is shown after he throws the girls picture, which could suggest that he wants to jump to recollect the picture as he regrets throwing it. It is down to audience interpretation, and this audience member definitely thinks that this is a step too far.
Another answer we got was 'because of climatic structure of video, it maybe takes too long for someone to understand the narrative'. In all honesty there is not much we can do to change this, as it all depends on the audience member. But this is definitely not a big challenge as they understood the narrative eventually (shown in their answer to question 2).