Evaluation Question 3

Q3.What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
Firstly we made a questionnaire for people in our class and our families to complete, the questionnaire consisted of different questions ranging from ‘what is your favourite genre of music’ to ‘who is your favourite singer/musician’. This was good because it gave us some idea of what people liked and what would be good to incorporate into our music video.

Secondly of all we had several ideas in mind, that we wanted to do, we had to eliminate this down to one. To do this we had a class discussion on the different ideas. The class was asked which idea they thought sounded the best. Then we did a Q+A on the one they thought was better. They took it in turns to ask us different questions about our idea, E.G What does the drink represent? These questions were good because we could establish a good idea that people did like and what they thought would look good in a music video. It also allowed us to determine whether our idea was strong and what improvements we could possibly make to make the over all out come more attractive to the audience.

Thirdly we had a draft version created early on for our teacher to have a look at and advise us on anything that would make it better. From the advice we were given we changed and in some cases re- filmed a lot of the footage to make it as good as possible. The advice from our teacher was really good because he is the one who will provisionally mark our work, he gave us the idea to change to black and white in some of the clips to make it look rustic as if it were in the past.

Aswell s all of this we also used Youtube to receive feedback from the general public. Uploading our draft on to Youtube allowed everyone to view it and to comment their own thoughts and opinions. We were open to constructive criticism and took any comments and advice given on board. By allowing such a broad audience to view our work it really gave us an insite as to how well we were achieving our goal, by the standard and representation of the music video through others eyes. on the right is a print screen from a comment we received on YouTube a while ago from our draft. This really helped us and used the good comments as motivation and to know we were heading in the right direction.

Overall I believe the feedback we received from everyone was very valuable. It helped us to decide on our final idea and even more so when we had started the work when the advice allowed us to change things around and hopefully improve our grade overall. We developed what we feel a solid Idea and production from all of the feedback. We hope we took as much as we could on board and listened carefully to what everyone had to say when it came to improving and progressing.