Tuesday 31 March 2015

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 4

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 4

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 3

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 3

"What have you learned from your audience feedback?"

We collected and used our audience feedback in the Planning, Construction and Evaluation stages of making our Music Video, Digipak and Magazine Advert.

In the Planning Stage, we held brief Focus Groups to decide which song we would use for our Music Video. In our first Focus Group, we suggested the following songs: "Wave of Popular Feeling" by Groundswell (now called Three Days Grace), "Your Girlfriend Sucks" by Reel Big Fish, "Home" by Gabrielle Aplin and "Girl in the War" by Josh Ritter. In the end, we decided on "Wave of Popular Feeling". Later into the coursework, Joe decided he wanted to change the song because of complications with the video and the song and we decided to use the acoustic version of "The River" by Good Charlotte. However, we later decided to change the song back to "Wave of Popular Feeling" after Joe got the idea of splitting the video into four screens, similar to acapella videos he had seen on YouTube and Music Videos like "This is An Emergency" by The Pigeon Detectives.

In the Construction Stage, we made a Rough Cut of our Music Video so that we could get feedback about our general idea for our video. We were told that the video was boring and slow due to the lack of variety. We fixed this problem by making the screens switch round on occasion either randomly or in an anti-clockwise order to the beat of the song. Sometimes the same screen would appear in all four corners. We also sped up the pacing of the editing to make it less boring.

We also got feedback from the teachers and other students for our finished Music Video. They pointed out a few last-minute small nitpicks and issues in the video so we could correct them on Adobe Premier Pro and finally upload the video onto Youtube.

We also got feedback for our Digipak and Magazine Advert. The digipak was originally seen as "too plain" during production due to the black-and-white visuals. We fixed this problem by making the layout of the Digipak checkered with these colours to make it more unique and we also used this same idea for the Magazine Advert.

In the Evaluation Stage, we got feedback through in several ways, including Survey Monkey and simple questionnaires. Joe even put the Music Video on his Facebook page for feedback in the comments section and the amount of likes.
According to the feedback, while there were no comments, the website shows the video got "liked" by 3 people.



A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 2

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 2

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 1

A2 Media Studies Coursework Evaluation Question 1

Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback

We collected our audience feedback in a number of ways.

We mainly held focus groups when trying to decide what song to use for our music video.









Joe had created and carried out a survey to get some feedback about our finished Music Video.


He also put the video up on his own Facebook page to get feedback. The video had no comments but it had been "liked" by 3 people.






A2 Media Studies Coursework Magazine Advert


A2 Media Studies Coursework Digipak