The document discusses how the author used the internet and social media to get feedback on a film project. They posted it online through sites like Facebook and YouTube to get responses from their target audience. This helped them improve the film by making changes based on what viewers wanted to see. The internet also allowed the author to research other similar films for inspiration and to learn film conventions by looking at posters and reviews. While the net provided fast feedback, it also carried risks of offensive comments or unhelpful feedback that could be discouraging. To get a variety of perspectives, the author also screened the film for a group of students.

1. QUESTION 4

2.  Using the internet in order to gain feedback from my film was very
useful and helped me out a lot, not only because the internet is a very
popular search engine, therefore more of my target audience are likely
to see it, but also it made the whole process a lot easier.
 I used different social networking sites such as Facebook, by using
web 2.0 it enabled me to gain feedback a lot faster rather than gaining
secondary information through things such as questionnaires. This
therefore enabled me to make changes and re adjust my film to
conform more to what my target audience were looking for.

3.  By having the internet through the use of YouTube for example, this also
helped the process of making my film and ancillaries must more easier and
quicker, to the best ability possible. This is because as I used YouTube to
watch professional, already existing films that fitted into the same hybrid genre
as mine, it helped me, like mentioned in my own YouTube video, gain different
ideas. When finishing my film, looking back at pre existing films such as
Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch Project i was able to compare my film to
these in order to see if it would be likely to appeal to my target audience.
 The internet also enabled to to search for preexisting material of film
posters and magazine reviews in order to see the forms and conventions of
what they look like so I was able to follow these conventions in order to gain a
professional looking product.

4.  Despite the use of the internet and the different websites helping me out
through my media coursework process, there is along with pros, various cons.
 Pros:
 Fast easy feedback
 Different effective tools, eg Wordle
 Helpful information
 Cons:
 Internet may be slow- not very helpful
 Could gain feedback which isn’t very constructive, but rather offensive and
therefore it could offend people
 Self taught

5.  Due to there being feedback which can be offensive to me as I
have created a short film from scratch, I wanted to get feedback from
a group of people who had never seen my film before in order to get
more views of my film from a different variety of people.
 Like shown in the post below, I showed my film to a group of
school students which I gained a lot of very useful feedback from
which I hadn’t particularly heard before.