2. What is Audience Feedback?
Audience feedback is a key part of this
course, as it allows a perspective other than
my own to review and evaluate each part of
my coursework. The target audience of my
genre is both genders, aged between around
14 and 25. I got feedback on the majority of
my practical tasks, as I wanted to make sure
that all of my products were produced to a high
standard, as well as making sure the links
between each product was evident.
3. Where was the feedback from?
I used a number of sources in order to
gain feedback from my target
audience. The majority of my
pieces of feedback was dictated to
me, which I then noted down and
mostly included in my blog (see
audience feedback label). The
majority of my audience were
members of my media class, as
they are knowledgeable about the
course and conventions of my
genre, but also because they had
seen the development of my
product throughout, and so had a
keen idea of what I was going for. I
also used social networking sites to
gain a more widened type of
audience feedback, giving me the
opinion of a viewer, rather than a
4.
5. Why was it useful?
Feedback often provided me with much helpful
information on ways on which to improve on
my products, and as a result affected my final
products. For example, in terms of my ancillary
products, feedback suggested to add a
background to my magazine advert, and to
change the size of my font. I tried to not stick
with one method of gaining this evaluation, as
I felt this was one way in which I could
highlight a range of types of media.
6.
7. How else did you gain
feedback?
I also used my blog itself for gaining feedback on my
products. In addition to its acting as an e-folder for all of
my work, I also created polls which were added to the
top right hand corner of my page, which helped to give
me some basic feedback on my products, with them
often being filled out by as many as 10-15 people.
Whilst they were generally used for fairly basic
comments, they worked as a method of getting an
insight into if my product was effective or not. If
someone wanted to comment specifically on an upload
on my blog , I also enabled comments, so if someone
had something to say they could mention it here. Whilst
this feature was fairly underused, I did receive one or
two pieces of feedback through this method early on in
the project, and this provided me with rich qualitative
data on which to build from.
8.
9. Why was it so important?
Overall, I found audience feedback to be a very
important part of this course. The view of
someone else is always going to be different to
mine, and as a result I will always get a
different point of view on the course and what I
should go about doing to improve my
coursework. Significantly, Feedback means
that a product will never be half finished, and I
will always continue to work on it until it is as
good as it can be.
