Evaluation question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Below I have attached other blogposts containing examples of audience feedback:

http://wayvsounds.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/audience-feedback-final-cut.html

http://wayvsounds.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/audience-feedback-rough-cuts.html

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

With regards to conventions within media products, there is overall generic conventions which can be applied to any media product. The generic conventions allow individuals to easily identify what the product is and its purpose. But if you are wanting to delve deeper into the analysis of conventions, you will understand that conventions will essentially vary between genres, thus forming genre conventions. This is when conventions are based on the genre in which the format belongs to rather than the format itself.

In terms of the 3 media products I have created: A music video, a digipak and a magazine advert there exists, generic conventions which I will identify in the table below.

I can then compare my own texts to the generic conventions shown in the table above. 

In terms of the 3 media products I have created: A music video, a digipak and a magazine advert there exists, genre conventions which I will identify in the table below.

I can then compare my own texts to the genre conventions shown in the table above. 

In summary to these findings, I am happy with how close I have kept my media products to both generic conventions regarding what is physically on the media products, and also genre conventions with how I have followed my specific music genre of Drum and Bass along with purposely incorporating elements of social realism to give these products some moral standing. I did find that, however, with drum and bass only really just emerging into mainstream culture, The boundaries of conventions have not fully been set due to lack of publicity and awareness.

Audience feedback - final cut

 As you can see from previous posts, I carried out a survey monkey in an attempt to receive feedback on my final cut version of my video. I posted this in group chats on social media sites and on twitter, despite this however, I was unfortunate to only receive 7 responses.

From this first screenshot, you can easily tell that the thing people liked was how they could personally relate to the story which places emphasis on the fact that it is suited for its primary audience.



This screenshot tells you that there was little that the people taking the survey could comment on that was negative about the video. This is good as it suggests that it is now definitely at its final cut stage.

 This screenshot also suggests that the video has also reached its potential in terms of catering for its primary audience in the sense that teenagers will be enticed to the familiarity of the video.

 This screenshot shows that the level of verisimilitude was successfully reached by using the hand held camera in a professional way.

 This screenshot shows that 100% of people responding to this survey understood the clear story line suggesting that it makes perfect sense.

 This screenshot suggests that all people who responded apart from two could identify the strong relationship between the lyrics and music video. This allowed my music video to achieve a conventional structure.

Here on this screenshot, you can see that overall, it was argued that my video was professional but still had slight room for improvement. 

Here is some footage of me filming my primary target audience with the addition of my mum who is part of the secondary target audience due to her age.

Evaluation question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation question 4

Audience feedback survey

Create your own user feedback survey

Are able to watch the final cut shown below and then carry out my survey?

Final cut

I am now at the stage where I have successfully put together a music video which is to the professional standard where I can class it as a finished product. This music video is now ready in terms of the overall aesthetic as I have altered the colours of each clip in order to create a concise level of continuity. I have also edited the clips in a way to tell the story of the narrative as well as I can by making it clear what the audience wants to see. I am now happy with how the clips work in terms of order and how they tell the audience a specific story.