3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Throughout the course I acquired a lot of feedback, some of it I considered to be very useful, some just useful and some of it I ignored as I considered it to be irrelevant. A lot of my final product was constructed from audience feedback. I got regular feedback around the class room and from my teacher so that I could improve my product so much that it was the best that it could be. During the construction of my video I rendered several earlier versions of my video and uploaded them to YouTube. This helped me understand what needed to be improved and what people liked about my video. Social media played a big part in my feedback because I used it even before I started constructing my product; I asked my audience what they wanted my product to be like. I constructed my questions to be almost like a virtual survey that the audience could fill out online. Before finally committing to by video this was uploaded to YouTube in a bid to see what people though. People were very positive about so I committed to say that, that was my final video. This is what people thought of it;

"I enjoyed it. The editing was fantastic"

"Thanks for getting this song stuck in my head"
 
"Love the superimposition of your singer and the music instruments, as well as the exteriors. I think it was a great idea to do that, very imaginative!"

"I love the shot at the end of the sunset of the beach! Well done James"
 
"It's really good James"

"Well, overall enjoyed the vid. Loved the overlay of some of the scenic images on the band members but felt the river footage had too much sun reflection (sun spot) that could perhaps have been edited out. The beach footage was a little juddery in places and at the end of the panorama when panning back it was a very sudden move, perhaps a fade out and back would seem less sudden. As for the music, really enjoyed it." 

If I were to do this project again I would get my video for visual disturbances such as a shaky camera or sunspots in the lens of the camera. I would do this to satisfy my last piece of feedback. I would also check that my video was shot in HD; my camera had the ability to shoot what I wanted to in HD but once I had filmed what I wanted to I discovered that the setting was not set for HD recording and it was too late to re-shoot so I have ended up with a Lo-fi video instead of  High definition.

 

Verbal Feedback

In an attempt to gain my feedback I, on a regular basis, went around the class to do a verbal survey, I would ask people on a one to one basis which version of my product that they preferred; it was almost like the audience chose my product for themselves. I did this for my poster as well as my CD and CD packaging design. This was mid product feedback. If I were to do a similar thing again I would be a little more inquizzitive; instead of simply saying this or that I would maybe say this or that or something else, if it turned out the audience did not enjoy either of my pieces.

My Media Pitch

Prior to the construction of any of my products, I presented my work in front of my class and requested that it was filmed. I gained feedback on my idea's through doing this. I asked for it to be filmed so that I could record what people gave me as feedback. This process I felt was really useful and it allowed me to gain perspective on what my target audience thought about my concept. If I were to go and do my pitch again I would aim to improve my presentation skills to maybe be a bit more specific to allow for the audience to completely comprehend what I had to say.