What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For our audience feedback we wanted a variety of different opinions so we decided to get are feedback in a variety of ways. First we displayed both our poster and magazine on face book and then later on we put our video up for people to view. This allowed people all over face book to give us their opinions of our work. We also uploaded the trailer onto You tube.com so that it could be viewed worldwide. As-well as showing our work on the Internet we also did a feedback session with our media class, this was really helpful as obviously they have all be doing the same work as us so they no what looks good and what doesn't. We did our feedback as it gave us constructive opinions as well as constructive criticism on our trailer and ancillary products. This would help us improve and see where we did well and where we could have done better. After getting all the feedback we will take into consideration all the things that have been said and see if any changes can be made so that we produce the best products we can.



Audience feedback for magazine front cover: This is the feedback from our magazine front cover it was our responsibility to read what onlookers had said and take it into consideration to see if any changes could be made. The first two comments made from Benjamin Tomkins and Bethany Sheldrick were pointing out the parts that worked and the bits that looked effective. This was constructive as it helped us no what works it also showed us that our magazine cover did reach out to the appropriate age group. The next comment was from my mum who is the older age range, but it was good to see her opinion of the magazine. She said the only thing she was unsure about was the back being backwards. This is something we then needed to discuss to see if we wanted to change. After talking to the group we decided that we were going to keep it the way it was as we thought it worked, another reason for keeping it how it was was that other people from our target audience liked it and this was the most important thing. The last person to comment was Rose, Rose is a media student at university so it was good to have her opinion in the magazine. She said she like the backwards back which was positive as this backed up our thoughts. After this and then doing the feedback session with the class which we were able to pick up a few pointers on we decided we were going to make some changes to our magazine.
This is the final magazine front cover:

The changes we made were:

• Aligning the edges so that the border was even the whole way round as this made it look neater (feedback from media class)




• We moved the tag line over to the right so that it was more visible for onlookers (facebook feedback)




• We moved the images at the bottom around to work better with the colour scheme (media class feedback)
  




• We changed the colours of some of the writing so that it was more visible
  

Film poster feedback:

This is the feedback from our film poster. The feedback in general over all was really positive most people made similar comments which in a way was a good thing. The most common comment was that people didn't like Ellie our main character being in red. When uploading the image onto face book the colour red changed slightly making it brighter so on our actual poster it isn't this bright so that was one of the bits of audience feedback dealt with. Another thing said was that 'night cameras are usually green' this is true but we weren't using the red to look like a night camera we were giving an enigma to the genre and trying to represent danger. When talking to our class about our poster there wasn't many comments made on things we needed to change. Overall our feedback on our film poster was positive so we decided as a group that no changes needed to be made.
This is our final film poster:

Audience feedback for film trailer:

We gathered audience feedback for our film trailer on youtube and facebook.

Youtube- Youtube was unsuccessful as it isn't something that people would necessarily view on their own accord, meaning that we only got five views and no comments. Although this was unsuccessful our facebook feedback was very successful.

Facebook- We uploaded the video onto you tube on my account and then I titled it 'media trailer, please could people leave constructive feedback, thank you.'
We got a lot of positive feedback on the trailer which was good as it meant people liked our trailer and we didn't have that much to change. A few people said the music at the beginning needed to be quieter so we made sure this is something we would change. Another person said the end shouldn't have the same music it should have different music so again we will work on this. After looking at ourselves we also decided to add in a few more effects and flashes. We had also noticed that the production label appeared twice at the beginning which we sorted out as it did'nt look professional. As a running theme between our pieces of work has been red we also decided to add red into the trailer at the end as this gives them all a strong connection.