Audience Feedback

As part of my audience research, I gave out a questionnare to my classmates when they viewed my promotional package. My audience feedback has shown me the areas that I can improve on, as well as highlighting the things my audience have liked about my digipak. Here are the questions asked and the replies I recieved:

1. How would you rate the success of the production in terms of following codes and conventions of a music video, a documentary or a short film?

Excellent Good Average Poor Very Poor

6 people said good, 2 people said excellent


2. From the evidence you have seen on the blog, how well planned was the production?

Excellent 1 2 3 4 5 Poor

3 people said excellent, 3 people gave it 1, 2 people gave it 2

3. Would you say the production showed evidence of:

No Imagination Little Imagination Some Imagination High Imagination & Creative flair

7 people said some imagination, 1 person high imagination & creative flair

4. The following refers to the technical aspects of the piece. Please rate the following on a scale of one to five (1 being excellent, 5 being poor)

a) Shot Composition - 3 people said 2, 5 people said 1
b) Mise-en-scene - 2 peole said 1, 4 people said 2, 1 person said 4, 1 person said 3
c) Editing - 5 people said 1, 3 people said 2
d) Sound & music - 7 people said 1, 1 person said 2
e) Use of fonts/texts - 3 people said 1, 4 people said 2, 1 person said 5

5. How could the production be improved? Please make your comments constructive and as specific as possible

- "Good editing!"

- "Simple song, simple cute video - effective. I liked it"

- "I think the video and song fit well"

- "Clouds were good. Good backgrounds, I liked the sweeping shot when the girl was dancing. More colour"

- "Really like how you cropped the wall smaller at the doo doo part"

- "Very good video and it fit very well with the actor & song"

- "Brown walls could have been lightened up"

6. How well do the print artefacts tie in with the main production in terms of a) Codes and conventions and b) Style and creativity?

- "Print artefacts are very abstract and creative"

- "Goes well with video"

- "Match the style of the song"

- "Very well"

- "Fits well"

- "Print artefacts are good, especially front of album. Effect is good. Good shot from video."

- "Links in with main product very well. Wall looks like it's drawn on with chalk. Very good effect."

- "Very good"

Overall, my feedback shows me that my audience enjoyed my music video and liked my print artefacts. I am pleased with my comments and will take anything that a member of the audience thought on board as constructive criticism, I will see how it can be applied to my work and how my work could have been improved; as after all, one of the most important things to take into consideration is that the audience enjoy my product.