Evaluation Question: What have you learnt from your audience feedback - David Manning

Audience feedback proved to be a vital form of development as we progressed through the course.

When we were constructing our product we asked our teacher and other peers in the class for advice and constructive criticism. They told us that we weren't signing in sync with the music at the beginning of the video so we decided to edit this out. It also taught us that when we originally filmed the section when the lead signer day dreams about the lighthouse, at first the drawing of the lighthouse was very unclear, but once we kew this we re-filmed this section to make it more obvious.

Once our coursework was complete we asked 3 individuals, 2 of which were within our target audience, teenagers and young adults to complete a verbal questionnaire via a webcam so we could get a personal audience response to our work. This was really positive as it proved our work was successful, however it was difficult to get an accurate response of what aspect of media construction they found the most successful as not all the people asked understood the media terminology we were asking them about.

We also carried out a written questionnaire and made graphs to show the response. This worked well as we gained a large amount of feedback quickly but we could not ask as detailed questions as the webcam interviews. This feedback taught us that the shot with the lead signer appearing twice was very memorable and our audience liked our physical representation of the Tin Man.

We gained International feedback at the end of our project, when we posted the final product online on YouTube and praise from people around the world. We were pleased all the comments were positive, for example:

- "Top work lads"

- "Really good man !!!! Well done !"

We also received 3 likes, and no dislikes. We were pleased by this as it meant we had fulfilled our task to a high standard.

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