To get audience feedback on my advert I posted a picture on Facebook; which allowed my family and friends to comment what their feeling were about the photo and help me improve the advert. The comments were complimentary and confirmed how I felt about the contrasting colours which related to the genre. It also enabled me to get comments from a variety of subjects such as how the photography works with my advert.
However, the constructive criticism was the most useful like the comment advising to enlarge the fonts at the bottom, although I felt the comment was justified and helpful I chose to keep the font the same size; as on other posters, like ones related to my genre, had the sponsors small and barely noticeable therefore, I felt by changing this the conventions wouldn't be like the 'Alternative Rock' genre and relating to a professionally product.
Another element I had noticed that could be improved with my advertisement was the website not being in the centre, however, if I had moved this along the font in the white that was contrasting then becomes hard to see and if I used half white and black I feel that it would not create the contrasting impact that I initially aimed for.
To get a wide variety of feedback I asked a different age range to give feedback on my website as this would allow me to get several different views on my media product. This feedback was productive as I realised the the aim of trying to maintain consistency had worked as most of the feedback commented on how the site links to the genre. The feedback that suggested the sides should have some advertisement down the side was inspiring as it was something I had tried to explore, initially I had paint splats down the side but I felt that it looked too messy and organised but the idea of having advertisements was inspiring and something I would have considered if I had more time. The comment on the banner was a shock to me as it was something that I had not considered and hearing that from someone else's perspective that it was "boring" was interesting. To avoid this in the future I think that I would add some more clip art that related to the genre. This would spice the banner up but still link to 'Alternative Rock Genre'. The constructive criticism concerning the photographs+ and how dark they are was very helpful as that's something that I would want to change straight away. To do this I would only alter the lighting a small amount on each photo. The lighting should be around the same to create consistency and depending on the photo I may lower the contrast levels.
I found audience feedback vital when reviewing my music video. It enabled me to see how effective or ineffective aspects of my music video was, through other peoples perspectives. For this I asked an AS Media Studies class to give me feedback and the video above shows their responses. I personally found the video very helpful as they raised points that I could have improved and pointed out aspects that could have changed.
The comments on what the class thought was effective allowed me to see that aspects I had originally thought weren't effective were, for example, "I thought the lighting was good" because "It creates a sense of disorientation" was particularly a useful comment to me when evaluating my piece. This is because the lighting in the narration scene was something I could not control and relied on natural light, the only editing I did to the lighting was editing the brightness and contrast. This showed to me that even without editing the lighting too much I still created a distorted effect. However, if I did have more equipment I believe the lighting is something I could have made even more effective by adding portable staging lights; due to the lack of equipment this could not happen.
Although the overall comments enabled me to see whether the video matched my genre, I particularly found the constructive criticism educational, as I found aspects I would have worked on if I had more time. For example, the comment on the lip sinking was something that I had not noticed before and would try to work on to correct the problem if I had more time. Comments such as "repetitive" was something I had considered early on in the making of my music video and something I had tried to prevent. I found this particular aspect hard to avoid as I was limited to the amount of footage of the narration due to the setting. This meant that despite trying the repetitive aspect was still noticeable. However, to avoid this I tried to used mirror effects, ghosting effects and different camera angles.
I also asked for feedback on Facebook, although I got little response the comments helped me understand what I could change about the music video to make more of an impact. I found once again that people felt it was repetitive and this was something I would have loved to have changed but due to me being unable to film in the same place again, it was something that I couldn't do. I felt that the complementarity comments were also very useful. For example, the comment pointing out that it relates to my genre enabled me to be more confident in my overall music video and realise that from unbiased perceptive it related to the 'Alternative Rock' genre.
