3. What have you learnt from your audience
feedback? (Video)
I believe that there are many
reasons into why it is important to evaluate my work. By evaluating my work I
was able to gather the feedback from my audiences and other audiences around to
comment and give my feedback on what I could improve within the media products
and also what they thought was good and beneficial to the products too. It is
important to evaluate my work so that I can decide and look at the work I have
produce and see whether my task has been a success and what other elements I
could involve to make my product better. I will also be able to gather a better
understanding of the genre I am trying to portray and evaluating our work
allows me to actually try to understand all of the elements I have included and
whether or not I have conformed or subverted my genres conventions. By having a
rough cut on YouTube I was able to get my niche audience to evaluate my work
and give me constructive comments into what I could make better within my music
video and by also showcasing it to my peers in a classroom setting I was able to
get them to evaluate it too and give me the evaluative points also.
I picked YouTube to showcase my
music video so that I was able to get a wider and more global audience to help
give me feedback on my music video. By doing this I was able to see what my
niche audience thought of my music video and whether they would be able to
relate to it as an audience and help me make it better and more conventional to
an indie genre. YouTube allows me to try and get my music video more globally
recognised from people in other countries, due to the large global scale of
YouTube it allows me to see what a larger audience think of the music video and
how this showcasing could help me develop as a producer by taking on bored the
comments and trying to make my music video better. YouTube allows people to let the user’s upload,
view, and share videos and this is something that would gain my music video
more views and opinions as people are able to share and view the video at
simply a click of a button. It will gain me more views and opinions the more
times it is viewed and allows more people are able to gain a better
understanding of the genre I am trying to portray and will let me know whether
they think the production is conventional or something that is relatable to the
audience.
By choosing YouTube I was also able to let the audience comment on my music
video and share their own opinion with commenting on the music video below. I
had some good constructive feedback and this included “The narrative is very
relatable but more editing is needed to make it look more like a professional
music video” – “I like the artist she is very stylish” – “More editing is
needed” – and also comments such as “it is very conventional to the genre. I
like the performance elements but their needs to be more performance throughout”.
These were just some of the comments we received within our music video on
YouTube and I took these all on board when trying to improve my music video so
that the audience are able to feel more of a connection with the music video.
By gaining these comments I was able to see an unbiased view of what people
thought of my music video and gain the feedback in order to try and make my
music video much better than it already is.
These comments made me feel more like a producer as it made me feel more
confident about my skills as a producer and I felt that if I had out more
editing techniques in I would have been able to gain the full confidence of my
niche audience. I was able to take on the constructive comments and as a
producer and feel that I could make a constructive change to my music video. By
taking on these comments and using them to my advantage I believed I was able
to take the comments on board and change them into the music video and make the
product much better than the audience thought beforehand. They made me feel
more accomplished as a producer as I felt that the comments were all positive
and they were just asking for more of certain elements which made me feel that
I had accomplished a product that that audience thought was very relatable.
For example through the comments asking us to add in more editing styles,
we used elements such as colors filters such as black and white especially when
the artist was trying to remember the good times in the narrative so that it
showed memory and made the audience try to connect with the artist better as
this could of possibly helped them relate to her. We also added in more
transitions such as swirl and fade to make the music video connect more between
each scene and show the change from performance and narrative. This editing
style was used just so the production could flow better between each scene. We
also added in editing effects such as flashing to make the music video more
professional and more entertaining for the audience. This made us then include
more performance so we went and filmed more performance of the artist singing
and dancing so that the audience felt their needs were met and they felt more
entertained. Those changes were essential into making our artist more
representational and also make our music video more professional for the
audience and the music industry.
This feedback would help me if I were working within the music industry as
it would help me to make my music video more entertaining and more audience
effective. It would help me develop as a producer as I would have to try and
develop with new technologies and make the artist perform and use more of their
time to help make the music video better and more entertaining for the
audience. It would help as a producer as it would develop my skills within the
music industry and help me to learn more about the technologies I would have to
use in order to make my product more effective. I would be able to take this
feedback as a producer in the industry and make it for a personal gain. The
feedback would be able to help me develop as a producer myself as I would have
to correct my own mistakes and change what I thought didn’t go well for the
audience even if I thought it looked good. I would have to take on board the
opinions of others and gain more teamwork skills through this feedback if I
wanted the music video to be more successful.