Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback is a hugely important part of the construction of any product.

It is important to find out what other people think about the product not just yourself and members of your group they will do this by telling you what they thought was good and what you did well but more importantly they let you know what they thought were negatives about the video. However, everything said negatively should be taken as constructive criticism to help improve the product.

We carried out some audience feedback by simply asking some friends, some who do media studies as a subject and some who do not so we could get some very different views. We also asked some unknown people therefore they will not give biased views.

Here is some examples of feedback Jake carried out it shows some feed back from 3 media students and one non-media student. They have written 'likes' and 'dislikes'. We collected up a large amount of feedback from different people. We read through them all and found the most common dislikes and then I set about changing it often I replaced it with something that people liked most.

Some common dislikes were often comments such like "There are some shots which are to long" and "there is too much use of strange angles". These were easily changeable and makes the video look so much better. These are also things that I did not notice and neither did the rest of he group this must be because we are watching the video so much and we also find it hard to criticise ourselves.

This all shows that the audience feedback is a very useful process.

The main problem that we seemed to have which most people picked up on was that there were a lot of shots from weird and obscure angles. There is nothing wrong with these shots as they make the video more interesting it is just that they are used too much throughout the video and it does not often break away to something more straight forward. many people said that more shots are needed at a neutral level and needs more shots of the whole band playing together.

To fix this problem I began to use two levels on final cut which gave me the ability to work wider and not in very small spaces.

Here is an example of me filming one of these strange angles, this one being very low. These are the type of shots we needed much less of.

Once we understood what we needed to do to our video there was no 'hanging around' I set straight at re editing the rough cut to what our audience feedback said. After changing the video to what everyone said there should be no major mistakes. minor things that are not very noticeable can be spotted and changed by our group.