Q.3 What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We've finished our music video, finally! Here's the link to it:

Since we've finished our video, we've asked people for feedback. In class we asked some people outright and we've also put it on the social networking site Facebook. We thought this would be a good way to get feedback as a lot of people have and use Facebook and also, it gives the chance for a wider audience of different ages and media experience (if they'd done any media subjects in the past or for GCSE or A level or at Uni). We asked them to leave feedback and here are some screen shots of what they said:

The positive points we got from this are:

• The shot of Dom stamping
• How the church was at both the beginning and end as it 'brought the video full cirlce and it's ambiguity was effective'

Some negative points we got were:

• The lead singer and
• How much band footage we had

Of course to us our video seemed fine but reading these comments made us open our eyes.

Reading:

When you've viewed something for a long period of time and have made it, you're going to read it in a specific way. For example, the preferred reading of our music video is that the driver kills someone by a hit and run sort of accident and is guilty and his conscience is following him who is actually himself. It's important to get feedback in order to know what the public thought will be of a media product and in case there's something that needs to be changed if it doesn't sit well. Feedback is important as it's constructive criticism and can help to improve.

Print Work:

We've also got some feedback for our print work. We asked an audience of variety to give us both positive and negative feedback for it.

 A lot of things were said about the style of both our poster and CD case. For example somebody said about our poster that 'it's simplistic which is good because it's easier to take everything in as it's eye catching'. We created a Wordle to show the feedback:

This is just the kind of style we were going for; minimalistic and simplistic as it's not too crowded or busy so there's not to much going on which makes it not as difficult to get the information out.

Here's a Wordle creation that consists of adjectives used to describe our print work:

Feedback is extremely important as audiences are essentially the people who will make your product a success or not so it's important to listen to them and their views otherwise they may go against it and your target audience or profit won't be reached.