Evaluation: Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback is very important for the final completion of the music video and the ancillary tasks as it allows you to identify what are the good and bad factors of you product and what needs to be improved and more often that not, certain parts of your audience feedback will have suggestions in how to do so.

Video Feedback

TEACHER FEEDBACK

We first required feedback when it came to the beginning of the task with our idea for our music with we gained off our media teacher. We explained to her our idea and she immediately liked the idea and thought that it would work with our song choice, however, she thought that something was missing. Even though she liked the idea of the main male character having a day dream of him following this fantasy girl as she tries to tease and lure him to follow her along with two other girls, she felt that for the length of the song, we would not have enough of a storyline/shots to keep the viewers interesting and to actually make a good music video. She then suggested that the main male character could bump into other people that are in the woods but are dressed up in weird yet still fantasy-like clothing doing average things such as sitting having a conversation but he will only be able to see them whereas they won't be able to see him. She suggested that maybe a couple of these types of scenes included in the video will mean that we would have more shots to make a full length of the music video with and it will also make the video more weird/strange so that the viewers remain interested.

We all liked this idea that our teacher had suggested and decided to included on our storyboard to explain the story of the music video and what type of shots are going to be included.

Whilst we were filming we often gained feedback off the other female actors included in the video, suggesting different shots and ideas that we could include in our video. This was a benefit for us as it gave us a point of view from other people perspectives.

The next bit of audience feedback that we received was after we had finished editing our video to conclude with our final cut. We required some audience feedback so it could be improved, firstly from our teacher. We found that the criticism from our teacher was much greater than anyone else but that is what we expected as she is our teacher and she will be completely honest as she wants us to get the best grades possible. I also thought this to be a beneficial for us as she has the most knowledge out of all of us as she has been a media teacher for a long time and we can therefore know what isn't liked so that it can be changed to made better. Her main criticism was that some of the shots weren't the best and were to long as needed to be cut down with effects so that it would flow into each other. Adding to this, she felt that the video needed to have more effects in it to make it seem more dream like such as adding in cross dissolves. She also felt that we did too many over the shoulder shots o that we get the back of peoples head a lot which she really didn't like which meant that we had to go back and re-film certain shots again so that we have more of a wider range of shots, especially ones where we can see the main character's face. She also wanted us to re-film part of Dan, playing the role of the main male character, as he repeatedly touched the back of his head and kept 'huffing' which she said was very noticeable but only became visible to us when she pointed it out. This shows how important audience feedback is as you need to gain someone else's opinion apart from yourselves as they may notice and comment on things that you may not have even noticed.

Unfortunately, we were not able to re-film any footage for our video as the main actress, Georgia, was continuously busy and wasn't able to take part in our media anymore. Instead, we had to work with the footage that we already had in order to improve our music video.

Apart from pointing out the bad points of our video, she did pointed out a few good points about our video. She felt that the storyline was good and went well with the song choice. had a relationship with the music in a sense that the shots and parts of the storyline went with certain parts of the music, especially with the middle of the video where goes quite and dream-like and there's shots of the two other fantasy-like girls.

CLASS MEMBER FEEDBACK

We also asked a few of our fellow class mates to watch our music video then write down their comments on a piece of paper for our feedback. They were less critical than our teacher but their comments were still important to us to help try and improve our video and to establish what are the good factors about the video. It was also a benefit that the feedback that we was receiving from our class mates was also from a similar age of our target audience which meant that this would be a reliable source to follow for feedback. Our classmates also picked up on the fact that some of the editing needed working on so this just confirmed to us something we could work on for the final cut. Below are the comments from our classmates.

Digipack Feedback

Below is an image of our first draft of our digipak

TEACHER FEEDBACK

CLASS MEMBER FEEDBACK

After taking the feedback from both teacher and class members into consideration, we changed the digipak and this is what the final draft looks like.

Website feedback

The feedback for the website worked slightly differently compared to the other feedback given for the other tasks. The feedback was given after the first draft of the task at hand, where as, with the website the feedback was given throughout. Here are the different types of feedback and the type of things that they said along the making of the website.

TEACHER FEEDBACK

• likes the roll over images for the main navigational links on the page - however doesn't like them being pink, would prefer them to be blue
• doesn't like the pink used for some of the font - too many colours on the page, makes it look prodominately for girls
• likes the idea of a user form
• like the rollover image of the album cover
• doesn't like the picture used for Gerogia as it isn't cut out properly

CLASS MATE FEEDBACK

• likes the header for the homepage
• likes the picture of the main male character in the top left corner of the page
• likes the idea of the user form
• doesn't like the main navigational links being pink

After receiving all of the different feedback comments whilst making the website, we quickly changed the faults and this is what was produced.

Homepage
Video Page