Evaluation Question- 3 (draft)

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I was given feedback from my audience through a range of different source which include:

• Teacher- Done
• Class Members- Done
• Blogger- Need to do
• Family- Need to do
• Need to put it on my Facebook and twitter get feedback from friends

By doing it this way I could get a variety of opinions from a range of people to help me identify improvements I could make to get my video in the right direction, making it as professional as possible. This helped me to realise the elements that worked well and others that didn't look as effective that could be improved on. These sources were suitable to gain audiences feedback as I could ask for advice from people within my target market and people my work might not appeal to also. By doing this I could balance out the opinions and views of the audience and meet their requirements by making appropriate changes when developing my work further. 

Gaining regular feedback through the process of making my music video from the teachers and class members was very useful as they understood the progress I had made from the start to the finish. This made them able to set reasonable targets to improve my three media products that would give me a better grade and allow me to see what steps I should take next to improve each piece of work. Teachers often spent ten to fifteen minutes giving me feedback in the lesson as they had looked over my blog posts, this included my research, planning and my music video that was on my computer which they kept viewing after I had changed parts. They then gave me a sheet of paper with their advice on things I could improve and change which was very helpful as I could keep looking back on these notes and adapt my work. Also when I was struggling in places they would email me giving me inspiration for my ancillary text and research for my music video by posting websites and links that came in useful allowing me to see previous students work that helped me with my ideas on my music video and other aspects of my work by taking my own view of it and applying to my work. Receiving constant feedback from my peers made it easy to make my ideas more clear and refined.

After doing my draft I was able to show my work to my class members which allowed them to sit down and take any necessary notes that provided use with positives and negatives on my video that I could improve on. By doing this I was gaining feedback from people that fit into my target audience. There were a few things that came up from a number of people, for example lighting in parts were darker than others, the garage shots I did could be improved finding more effective places, the dance moves the band did could be improved and should of spent more time practicing. These comments were very useful so I could concentrate on these certain elements but I didn't have enough time to improve every bit so I did the best I could. I believe my video came out quite well in the end and represents the Pop genre I did from the feed back I got.

I also received feed back throughout the making of my ancillary text from my teachers. For the digipack I got told I should use the same background behind each of the girls so id have something that represents my band and so they'll be recognised. Also I was told to remove the white background around my text as it didn't look very professional. The teachers told me to make sure my text was lined up to each other and were the same size so it looked neat as it was a bit messy at first. Final they told me to pick a less posed image for the front cover as it wasn't usually seen on Pop albums. For my magazine advert the main comment raised was finding the right image to put on the front of the advert as it had to connect back to the digipack. A record label was also needed to be added to the advert so you knew what record label they were signed by which showed what kind of genre the music video and band are. By receiving both positive and negative feedback it allowed me to identify the changes i needed to do on both of my ancillary texts and music video which include styling, miss en scene, lighting, location, filming and editing.

I think it was important to get feedback from varies people and sources because I could get their input to what they think was good and what needed improvements and it made it even better that they were my target audience so when I changed parts of my products I knew what my audience was looking for. Doing this process would make my products more successful and meet their requirements. Getting feedback through the making of my ancillary texts and music video allowed me to improve certain parts throughout the time I had to make them making the process smoother. By allowing people outside of my class to see my ancillary text and give me feedback made me see things I might not have seen before. The feedback I got from my draft video wasn't much as I hadn't put it onto my blog but the feedback I did get I tried my best to improve part I could do as some areas I wanted to change were impossible because of weather and other elements. All together I believe my media products came out as best as I could do them in the time I had and thought it fitted in well with my Pop genre.