Will Hooper's Evaluation Question Three

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We received on going feedback from another group in our media studies class. We felt this was essential as we had very specific and similar ideas as a group and wanted to gain knowledge from another source who were approaching our work from another angel.

INITIAL PITCH

After gathering all the research we required and planned a rough idea of what our video will look like (including storyboards) we presented a pitch to the class and asked for feedback after. Due to past problems with getting solid and helpful feedback we channeled the feedback that the class would give us into three sections that we felt was important to develop our product. The three sections were: Ideas, Possibility (whether it was actually doable) and Construction (how it can be filmed).

IDEAS

• "Maybe you should consider how to signify the changing of each channel."
• "I think you should have an still of a television at the beginning of the video to set the scene."

POSSIBILITY

• "You have set yourselves a lot of work to do but it is achievable if the right planning and preparation is made."
• "I would think about cutting down the amount of scenes you have as you have a lot to do!"
• "Work hard, job done."

CONSTRUCTION

• "For the Lost scene idea you had, you should think about using a dolly for the moving camera. Or maybe even using some sort of transport and fixing the camera to it (bike, car, skateboard).

This feedback was really helpful and some of the points raised above were discussed in detail with the person who made the point and we had clear ideas on some of the things we were worrying about achieving.

ROUGH CUT

We did another pitch regarding a rough cut of our main text we created. And a lot of the feedback provided to us was about the confusion between the changing of the channels. People stated that "it was not clear enough that a channel had been changed." So responding to this I created a second long crackle and old television changing sound and inserted it between each scene.This then was much more clear and actually made the video become more aesthetic, giving it another dimension.

Other than this one problem, the feedback was very positive:

• "Best one I have seen yet."
• "Very funny and interesting."
• "AWESOME!"
• "I really enjoyed it. I was entertained throughout and thought it was very creative."

This boosted morals in our group and went on to finish our main text with the knowledge that it was highly regarded. Which made me feel very proud.