During the entirety of our project,we received feedback from three sources:
1. Fellow students in the class.
2. Our media teacher.
3. Outside of college on social networking sources (primarily facebook).
As the video reached its production stages the main types of feedback we received (from our teacher) were to learn to prepare and plan the filming process as we were lagging behind quite a lot due to focusing too much on each scene in long amounts.
So we listened to this feedback and as a result created 'production plans' for each day of shooting,in these we'd plan what we would do for the day then consequently record how the day went to plan in conjunction with the original idea's we mapped out. These helped us stick to doing just what we need to do and not become distracted by other ideas.
Mid project we also got various feedback on the layout and construction of our blog,the response was mainly positive minus a few small things to change,we agreed and decided to take these into account (font,colour,background etc).
We also decided to cut the idea of doing a 'Lost' pastiche as many people upon hearing the idea felt it was way too ambitious to create such a high concept scene,so it was replaced with the simpler idea of the 'Top gear' pastiche.
Once we had finished the rough cut of 'ice age' we turned to class feedback on the showing,to see what they thought and how we could improve on our current product. We also allowed youtube comments to see what people outside of college thought. the youtube comments weren't affective as we only received one simply saying 'BRILLIANT' however during the class feedback the main concern was during our big brother scene in which we include an extra person who isn't in the band as kind of in joke. Many people didn't understand or like this idea,however we as a group liked the idea still regardless and felt we should keep it in.
For feedback on our final cut we chose to get our feedback outside of college (due to losing footage in which we interviewed our class members,even though the only feedback that came up was once again the big brother section) We used a facebook status in which I put 'people of facebook we need feedback on this,opinions?' and a link to the video on youtube. In two days we received 33 likes and 52 comments. This was a substantial amount more than we believed we would get. We received widespread positive comments and the only constructive criticism we received was from two different people claiming that in our wildlife section the audio of the song and audio from the video clash too much in the second half (We took this into consideration and edited the sound levels of the video to try and sound better).
However the only problem with facebook is that the comments can be very personal due to being on facebook and we received many problems with certain feedback such as;
Use of slang. ( Straight up Murdur one) (yh fucking quality m8 pretty tight g)
Sarcasm. (on second thoughts i hate it and it might be racist) (LOOOOL maybe fine arts aint the only creative subject in college ;) )
Joke negative comments from fellow media students. (I hate you all) (I have a lot of hate for you right now...)
We also used youtube comments as a part of feedback,linking the video to various popular videos on the internet such as Justin Bieber's 'Baby' (the most watched video on the internet of all time
We felt the use of this new age technology as a form of feedback worked extremely well in helping us improve our final product.
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