3. What have you learned from audience feedback?

For the final evaluation as a group we are going to show our video to two form groups during mentor time as this is the best way to get an age ranged feedback from a large group of people. As our school has vertical mentoring we have students from the age of 14 up to 18 in each form; groups are of approximately 25 students so we will get a group of roughly 50 together to take part in our simple questionnaires whilst watching the music video. This will allow us to recieve even more audience feedback.

Video
Other than this example of audience feedback, our group has been particularly lucky in being able to receive feedback from the existing band, Little Comets, of whom we have used their song for our final music video. We feel very privileged to have been able to contact the band via Twitter and we have proof of their replies...

We then received one reply about our final version of the video, however I carried on the conversation with them about it last time and was not online at the time that they replied so no one managed to keep the feedback coming on this occasion. We will in fact try to send the link of the video to them again later on and see what else we can get from them.

Other than our feedback from Little Comets we have also all posted the video on Facebook and Twitter separately as well as on the 'band' profiles. We have had a number of 'likes' on Facebook as well as a few retweets (mainly by us) on Twitter. Unfortunately we received a lot more feedback on the draft video, I think this is because no one had seen anything to do with our video before and by the final video has been posted we had already shown them all the draft so they knew what they were expecting.

Above, are some of the comments from the post I made of the draft; the comments show some of the feedback and a change that we needed to make from the draft to the final - using Lewis instead of substituting his role with myself - this was purely due to his absence and not by choice.

Posts of our final did not receive any comments which is why we will be showing our video to form groups to gain further feedback. 

We also posted the link on Twitter multiple times to try to gain views and feedback via spamming everyone's dashboards however this equally did not work.

Our final draft video also has a higher view count than our final version on YouTube, this means we will need to continue spreading the link to our video across social networking sights.

We also received feedback from our teachers which was well appreciated; particularly on our final video as it gave us reassurance that we had accomplished what we had been planning for months.

All in all I think that the feedback we have had from our peers, teachers and each other on our ideas and final version of the video; from the draft point of view it gave us things to work on and develop, as well as the scenes and ideas that we should keep in the video. The final point of audience feedback to look at is whether as a group we were influenced by the exam board in our ideas; I feel that the only way in which the exam board influenced us was that we needed to have back-up of where we had formed our ideas from, they could not have just been chosen 'out of the blue' as some of them were extremely quirky and different e.g. the money and banana sketch (originating from Benny Hill style comedy). The exam board may be looking for something other than what we have created, but I do think that we have succeeded in keeping our original plans from the start of our research and planning and have developed a music video to reflect all of our hard work.

Digipak/Poster

For my feedback from my digipak and poster drafts I asked my group and my peers which album cover they liked the most on a previous blog post; I recieved feedback comments from 2 members of my group as well as one of our teachers; Harry also gave me feedback via Facebook after creating my post.

3 comments:

Meg Rhodes said...

I like the second one the most because it's simple yet really effective. I think it matches the genre well because I'm sure I've seen something similar before in the Indie genre

11 October 2011 11:22

Joe Chamberlain said...

I love the first and second ones. I like the layout and the pictures are interestingly different :)

11 October 2011 14:07

Mr Smith said...

Number 4 is my favourite because (and this is a compliment) it feels like you are taking the piss. Though I'd probably mess about with the picture a bit.

Google Harlem - Hippies. That bands style is similar to yours

Number 3 reminds me of something but for the life of me I can't remember what.

Good work.

11 October 2011 16:07

To make my cover more indie/alternative I decided I should take inspiration straight from an existing album cover - hence why I focused on The Automatic's album 'This Is A Fix'.  

I appreciated the feedback but was very unsure of whether I liked any of my designs enough to create the rest of the digipak; I continued to create the full digipak regardless but then recieved comment feedback from my teachers to restart my idea completely. This was within my interests so I was not at all affected by the negative feedback, I knew from an early stage that my designs were not clearly linked to the band; this was particularly due to the indie/alternative genre and the vague alternative images used on my album covers.