Audience feedback from my rough cut

I asked my peers to evaluate my rough cut in order for my to recognise what I needed to change about it; the comments made very mainly positive which I was pleased about because I knew I was going in the right direction and my concept was working. The thing that my peers like the most was the fast pace editing at the start of the video and how each shot changed when the beat of the song changed, this was said to be very effective and didn't need any improvement. 

However I was told that I needed to use more edits on shots to make it link more with house music genre, as a lot of the shots by this point didn't have filters or any contrast in the brightness. Another point made was that I needed to continue to use faster shots in the build-up the song instead of slowed down lighting that was used in the middle sequence; it was said it was a bit of an anti-climax and didn't really fit with the music. This point was the key point that I took on as it was the completely wrong effect I wanted to create for the music video and I knew I needed to change this as soon as possible.   

One peer also said I needed to include some kind of lip syncing in the video as there was none at all, I wasn’t too sure if I wanted to include lip syncing as it wasn’t very typical to the house music genre, however I did consider it and tested it to see what it would look like and a number of people said it was a huge improvement. This convinced me I needed to use a small snippet of lip syncing just to break up some of the shots, I also wanted to include this to show the quality of my editing skills.

Another comment was made about the concept of my video, a few people didn't understand it fully.  They saw the link between the lyrics and the visuals through repeated shots at the opening of the video but said it needed to be clearer as this stopped as the video continued.  The feedback I got from showing my class my rough cut was heavily influential to the development of my product, and I went away feeling confident about my idea, but also apprehensive about capturing a range of new shots to cover all the issues raised.