Initial Screening:
During our initial screening, I noticed a few problems that needed to be fixed before the deadline. Firstly, the introduction was missing the performance times and was zoomed in too far. This is a very easy thing to fix, as you just need to shift the position.
The next thing that I did not like was the fact that despite all of my hard work on clocks, it was out of sync again. I think this was because the clip had not been rendered when it was added to the stream. In future, I think that it is a good idea to render every video as during the creation of the credits and intro, I was having issues constantly with audio cutting out or being out of sync when exported. This was fixed during the rendering process. Although it may take time, rendering definitely helps to stamp out issues you may have at the very vital and late stages of post-production.
After that, I noticed that a few videos had continuity errors such as in Oh, Pretty Woman where Alfie added a lip roll in post-production. This is not a major issue it just looks a little bit strange. Unfortunately this was something that could not be rectified in time but as it was not too noticeable I didn’t mind. Unlike this, the Day Trip set had too much keys during the chorus where you would prefer vocals. I prioritised this and it looked much better once I had fixed this.
One other fairly large problem was the audio. Although it sounded really good for the short time frame and lack of audio engineers, the tracks had not been mastered. This meant that Lewis had to take all of the audio home last minute and do that for us. This took most of our final day to add back in but it was worth it. However, I think that it made the acoustic guitar more prominent, which was a bad thing because this was an overdub and was not in the original performance and it was pretty obvious that this was the case. Next time we will ensure that things such as this in Somebody That I Used To Know and the finger picking in Creep are more subtle.
The Real Stream:
The night of the stream ran very smoothly. The upload was done on time for the premier and we had no lag throughout. Unfortunately, due to the fact I was screen sharing it on a Zoom call with some of my family and friends, I was 30 minutes behind everyone else. This was a shame but I did still get to see the live chat and comments. I noticed the vast majority of the people commenting were very positive and were impressed with what we had done. As of writing this, our view count is 1,738 across both our official channel and the Bradford College channel. This number is still rising as people either share the video with their friends and family or choose to re-watch it again and again. I am extremely impressed and surprised by this. No one thought we would manage to reach much more than those who come to our live performances in college but we have nearly reached that number tenfold without including various people in different households.
There were also a few people who were ruining the night by being inappropriate, which was a shame but we were lucky enough to be able to block these comments and the users to stop this. In future, we need to officially establish the mediator before we premiere a video so that the person doing so can react to similar situations much faster than we did on this occasion. In hindsight, we were advised by Tom to do this but as there was only one person with access to the account, only they could do this and were not watching out for it.
After the stream had ended, I received some feedback from various people. One of those people was Alexey Newton (A student from the degree course who did the audio for the solo performances). Here is a screenshot of our conversation:
I intend to reflect on this for future performances and practice more varied vocal styles and genres to improve myself in general.