EVALUATION 3What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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.

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 media

student who is likely to be critical.

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.

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.

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.