The Gospel According to Oprah eval

Same Direction--Roy thought the background to the song was too busy.  background distracting on center....

Monologues--these were awesome!  Christina did a great job of writing these--they were extremely convincing and really gave credibility to the other viewpoint.  

Music sounded really great.  Too much light on Brian as a background vocalist.  But from a camera standpoint, everyone was too dark. Band did a good job playing with a click track.

Good call to have Oprah speak for herself...couple of frames that should have been cut...(people walk off clip).  Function of imovie transition...?

Opening media piece was good...words at end were too small, so we had to cut it off 2nd service.  When we cut the words 2nd service, we should have kept music going underneath so it wasn't so abrupt.

click track glich 1st service...

6-8 Eval

band flexed and added an intro which worked great.

Paul did a great job--especially 2nd service, a lot looser.

1st Service awkward segue between the idol logo to Paul.

"Always Be My Baby" Brian had more energy 2nd service, which was great. Sounded great first service, but didn't "Sell" it with his communication.

Staff idol video--Okay...don't know how funny it was. Probably a video that was in the middle of production. If we could have taken that and had two more weeks to tweak it, would have made it a lot better. Wasn't seen in time to make any changes. Good that we had two camera angels, etc.. music at the end was great--wish we had more sound effects and over the top stuff through out. Probably needed to be faster paced and shorter, some of the set up stuff was confusing, so I don't know how well they followed the story line...ie: candy--why was she dressed as a bag lady? Wish there had been the kung fu over dub between Trevor and Rachel--or a dart/sound effect...


Wonderfully Made--worked well, actors didn't seem as natural as usual...

Song started kind of abruptly--a softer drum click in would have worked better--the song started kind of abruptly out of the drama.

Music sounded great, and David did a great job leading, with Jason's help.

6-1 Eval

Medley:
Great job--everyone really worked hard on this--very effective. David was especially on his game in communication and really hammed it up. Overall, everything was often.

Instrumentally--very tight--things held together well.

Vocalists--great job, lots of hard work. Girls, good job learning all of those parts, and figuring out how to coordinate everything.

To improve: Maybe give girls more specifics so that they feel more choreographed. There were times where it didn't seem as high energy as it could have been. Perhaps because we asked them to be careful about dance moves, seemed like they backed off the energy a bit. Dawn, smile more!:) But, a lot to pull off and they did great for all of the harmonies, props, dance moves, etc!

Lot of programming up front and maybe too long before Roy spoke. Need to remember on medley days that we can cut back the programming a bit.

Song with drama was great--good changes to make it more of a fit with the dancing/Jamaica thing.

Media: not sure if the ramsey-isms. wouldn't have repeated the clips from both media pieces.

butt shot??? not sure about that...

Surrender--great job everyone--the full vocal team on stage was really cool!