Evaluation Q3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Throughout the construction of my products I have been given feedback, both good and bad points. This has helped me to produce my main product and the ancillary texts to a good standard, I have used feedback from my peers and from people who would be the audience for my band as the feedback from them is the most valuable as they are the people that I am trying to appeal to.

The first piece of feedback that I received was for my music video pitch, I presented this to the class as they are in the age range of my audience which means that the feedback that I receive will be valuable to me and it means that what they say is relevant and should be listened to. The pitch included information about the band, such as members, name, and the song that I used in the video. It also included information about their style and genre, I presented it right at the start of the project so that I could get a good understanding if what I was thinking of creating was worthwhile and the potential audience actually liked it, if they didn't it wouldn't make it too hard to change as I hadn't done any other work. The feedback that I received was positive, my peers thought that it was quite good and thought that the things I has said about the band fitted well with the genre and would be something that they would listen to if they were a real band. This was good for me as I knew that I didn't need to change anything and I was able to stick to the ideas that I had originally thought of.

I then received feedback for my draft digipak and advert, throughout the construction of the draft versions I was asking my peers and friends (as they were the potential audience of the band) what they thought of the designs. This was helpful to me as it meant I could find out exactly what people thought of the designs, I asked them to tell me what the good and bad points of the ancillary texts were so that I could improve them to make them more appealing to the potential audience of the band. Once I handed my work in I received feedback from my teacher for the designs, I then went around implemented some of what he said into my designs. The reason that I didn't put all of the feedback into the designs is because I again asked my peers and friends what they thought of it and they told me what bits to put into the ancillary texts, the reason that I didn't  listen to all of what my teacher said is because he isn't in the audience range group which means that although he is the teacher the genre of music might not be appealing to him so he might not know exactly what he is talking about, which is why I didn't listen to all of the feedback.

Once I had posted my digipak and advert on to my blog I received feedback from my peers on the blog. I received comments about both of them from several different people, this feedback helps me to see how my products are perceived by the age group of my intended audience. The main feedback that I recieved for my digipak and the advert was that the layout of both was good and that there was a sense of continuity between the two as I used the same background and the same main image. Another thing that was said to me was that they like the minimalistic look of both the digipak and the advert, and that it worked well with the research. These comments help me to see how my intended audience think about the ancillary texts that i have created, this then lets me know whether the products are appealing to the audience or not.