2. Methods we used
For audience feedback we decided to upload our video onto
a very well known website YouTube. YouTube has a like
and comment icon so it was particularly useful.
We also posted our video on social network sites. We used
facebook and Twitter, here you can also post videos where
people can like and comment making it also very useful as
we could easily get comments and likes on our video.
Another technique we used to get feedback was by showing
it to family and friends.
3. YouTube
YouTube is easily accessible website and people
found it very to easy to view our video
However a problem we did come across was that the
leave a comment the person must have a YouTube
account, this was a problem as many people do not
have accounts and therefore could not give us
feedback on our trailer, this meant that we could
only get limited feedback on our trailer from
YouTube.
4. YouTube- comments
10 Thumbs up 2 Thumbs down
Crazyfishxx: well done guys looks real good!!
Chelsea95s: good job, I particularly like the
beginning of the trailer.
Tozzazzx: yayy this is really good :) well done Euan
and Emma x
5. Facebook and Twitter
Facebook and Twitter are the two most popular social
networking sites on the internet.
We had high prospects when putting our trailer onto
Facebook and Twitter as between us we have hundreds of
Facebook friends and Twitter followers.
The trailer was very easy to insert onto both of the social
networking sites.
We received a much larger amount of audience feedback
from these sites.
The very useful aspect of using our Facebook and Twitter
accounts is that our friends are of the same age which is
17-18 years old which was conveniently part of our target
audience.
6. Some of the Facebook and twitter comments and
tweets
5 facebook likes, 1 retweet
Facebook: Sam Ford- This is a good trailer (comment got 2
likes)
Facebook: Tash Hill- I didn’t know you did media, not a
bad trailer
Facebook: Helen Kirkpatrick- not bad at all!! :)
Twitter: Max Summerfield – retreated Euan Jackson's
tweet (trailer)
Antonio Tedeschi- @EuanJackson well done on the trailer
really focussed on the conventions of a Horror movie.
7. Friends and family feedback
One of the easiest ways that we were able to get
feedback from was from friends and family.
We were also able to get a far wider range of ages to
view our trailer which we were not quite able to do
on YouTube and on social networks.
We could also gain more detailed and qualitative
information
The people that we asked were people such as our
parents and people who we go to college with.
8. Friends and Family feedback
Euan’s Dad- I think the trailer is quite good, I think
that the start of the trailer is better than the end of
the trailer because it flows better but all round it
does seem to be good
Callum Carmichael- The trailer is descent, you can
see how they have tried to apply the common
conventions of a trailer.
Emma’s Mum- I think the use of sound is quite
effective and the editing is done in time with the
background scores. I like the documentary feeling
which is created making the trailer scary to watch.
9. Audience feedback
We also had to get feedback on the two other task
that we were given, a magazine front cover and
Poster.
For this we did not use YouTube however we did
replace it with a specialised social networking site
called Instagram, where people can only share
pictures
We also again used Facebook, Twitter, friends and
family.
10. Instagram
Is a social networking site where you can post pictures.
Those pictures can be liked and commented on.
We thought we could take advantage with this with our
magazine front cover central image and our poster
image. We decided that we would let our friends on
Instagram decide what photos they thought were best for
the magazine front cover and poster. The Pictures with
the most likes would be used in our posters and
magazine front cover
All the pictures had already been edited but we thought
we would let our friends on Instagram decide which
edited image was best, this was quite good our friends on
Instagram were part of our target audience.
12. Facebook and Twitter
After letting our Instagram friends decide what
image we were to use, we took those images and
made them into our poster and magazine front cover.
We then posted these onto to our facebook and
twitter pages which was just as easy as inserting our
Film trailer.
We were now able to get some quantative and
qualitative information on our finished products
Again the people who are commenting and liking are
in a our target audience.
13. Some of the Facebook comments
8 likes
Magazine Front cover comments:
James Sharman- Very good (2 likes)
Michael Carne- Euan you look so creepy
Charlie Mariaux- Much better than ours! x
4 likes
Poster comments
Robbie Cleveland- I like how you have over laid the images (1
like)
Rachel Gilbert- looks professional :)
Jessica Morgan- Creepy!! :P
14. Twitter tweets
1 retweet
Magazine Front cover Tweets
Josh Lubek- @Euanjackson did you make this!? #notbad
Harriet Samuel- Retweeted Euan’s post
Poster tweets
Charlie Ince-Green- @emmawrite great poster, well done
Emma.
Amanda Lidiard- @emmawrite I can’t believe Iam in
your poster, turned out great.
15. Family and Friends
To get some more qualitative feedback on our poster
we then also again decided to show our college
friends and our family.
Again it was good here to see what people of different
age groups thought about the poster and magazine
front cover.
16. Family and friends
Family and friends comments about poster:
Euan’s Mum: I think the poster is really good, If I
were going past it on my way to work on the
underground it would definitely attract my attention.
Emma’s Sister: I really like the overlaying of the two
images, It gives a very creepy effect and makes you
wonder what the connection is between the
background picture and the overlaying image of the
creepy eyes.
17. Family and friends
Family and friends comments on the magazine front
cover:
Robyn Garcia: I think that the magazine front cover
is quite good, it is obvious they have put in thought
about what are the common characteristic of a
magazine front cover and put that into practise.
Euan’s Sister: I think Euan looks really scary on the
front of the magazine front cover, I like what they did
with his eyes and the little images at the bottom of
the front cover.
18. Qualitative and Quantative
Quantative: Deals with numbers. Data which can be measured.
- Length, height, area, volume, weight, speed, time, temperatur
e, humidity, sound levels, cost, members, ages, etc.
- Qualitative: Deals with descriptions. Data can be observed but
not measured.
Colours, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc.
- The real advantage of using social networking site is that it
has these comment and like icons, which meant they were
really good for getting quantitative and qualitative data
- Asking family and friends to make a statement was really
useful as we could get really good qualitative data from
different age groups. Although we wanted to mainly find out
qualitative data from people in our teenage target audience it
was still good to get feedback from the older adult audience.
19. Qualitative
We managed to get a lot of qualitative
information, which is good as we were trying to get
as much of this data as possible. This is because we
actually thought this was the most helpful feedback
we could get.
We got qualitative data from comments on YouTube
and facebook also tweets on Twitter.
The best qualitative data we got was from family and
friends as they went into more detail than those
people on YouTube and Social networking sites.
20. Quantitative
Although we did not think this sort of data as useful, it was
helpful as in it gave us a measureable figure of what the
response to our trailer, magazine front cover and poster really
was.
We got likes from all of the social networking
sites, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
On all of these websites there is an icon to show whether you
approve of what you see, however only on YouTube is there an
Icon to show if you disapprove. I think the problem with this
is that we were not able to get a real insight whether a lot of
people disliked what we created
Approval = 28 Disapproval= 2
From this information we can see that the majority of people
did like and approve the three tasks that we completed.
21. Evaluation of audience feedback
I think overall our audience feedback was very successful as we were able to gain a lot of
information in creating all of the tasks we were set.
We were also able to see what people particularly our chosen target audience thought of our
trailer, magazine front cover and poster. In this the internet very much came in handy as the
majority of our information was found using Social media.
We thought that the qualititative data that we received was actually the most useful as it was far
more detailed and therefore it was easier for us to make changes using that data.
However the qualitative data was useful as it gave us a number of how many liked or disliked
what we created. Although the problem we found is that only YouTube give a user a chance to
dislike what they see none of the other websites we used give that feature so it actually hard for
us to scope how many people actually disliked either our trailer, magazine front cover or poster.
YouTube is also far less personal as you are able to comment and like on any video on YouTube
and therefore a persons opinion is likely to be more honest, so we could say that the
information we got from YouTube is perhaps more valid than on any of the other website we
used, we did take this into consideration. On Facebook, Twitter and Instagram you are
generally good friends with whoever comments or likes your post, these people may withheld
what they honestly think so that not offend there friend. We also took this into account.
The opinions of family and friends was also very useful, as we were able to get more of a
complex review of what they thought of what we created . However again we did take into
account that those friends and family could also of withheld information so that to not to offend
us, although any criticism we would of got we would of taken positively and tried to change
what we had created for the better.