Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

To gain the information needed for my audience feedback I asked a series of questions directed at the members of the class to see their views and thoughts on it and any criticisms they had. We also showed the video multiple times to the rest of the A2 media class as a whole and listened to the feedback given. A second part in receiving feedback was for both I and Hayley to post the finished video on Facebook and show it to the masses and get them to leave comments and feedback on there. This aloud us to reach i higher number of people very easily rather than doing surveys. It also gave them a chance to watch the video at the same time as commenting meaning thoughts and feedback was given straight away and no mistakes made.

From the surveys I constructed in class, the feedback I received was very positive and as an overall observation was something that people liked and was a good finished product. The main points the the people liked were as followed.

• Editing was timed well with the tempo of the song.
• Vast amount of camera shots and angles.
• Very interesting special effects.
• Mise-en-scene is very appropriate, costume, actors, locations etc.
• A very fluent and well composed piece. 

Although the majority of the feedback we received was positive, there were some constructive criticism to help us. These were such things as follows:

• Some syncing problems.
• Lighting isn't great in places.
• Strobe light scene is used to much in one go.

After taking into consideration the constructive criticism and the positive feedback we adapted small parts of the video to adjust to these points to make it better. I believe with the finished product it is now at the level we want it and is interesting that no more negative feedback has come from it.

These next images show the evidence of the different ways both I and Hayley chose to show our video, this included Facebook and Twitter and other types that pictures aren't available for were in class and around the school.

 

By posting the video and asking for feedback on the social networks it aloud us to reach a much larger audience easily. 

Overall, answering the question in a paragraph would be that I have learnt not to use lots of one with, the strobe light scene was used to much and as it was one of our best shots we felt we had to use it a lot but due to the audience feedback it became clear that there was to much in it. But apart from that criticism from the audience feedback we gained it shows its a very well composed piece that people enjoyed watching.

This next section is all on the ancillary tasks and answering the same question for them. The ancillary tasks as a whole were a fun project and something different which we enjoyed a change with. We got to use new software that we hadn't used before so it was a nice challenge.

A similar style of showing our ancillary tasks was used except it wasn't shown on social networks like the main task. Both sections of the task (The digipak and magazine advert) were shown to the class and the feedback noted down.

All feedback for both parts was very good and they seemed to be a popular piece among the other class members. One small negative point that was raised was the darkness of the image on both parts but this was due to the printer and on screen the images are perfect.

After the audience feedback for our ancillary tasks nothing was changed, the only negative was the fact the printer wasn't set up properly so nothing could have been done on our part. This shows we made a very successful combination and is something that needs little if any change.

Evaluation Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary task?

This is the answer to the evaluation question 2 answered in a multi media way.