What have you learnt from you audience feedback ?

In this video you will see I have had some mixed feedback from two media students, the first student has praised my use of music telling me that it is affective and works with the genre that I am trying to go for which is thriller. She has also told me that she thinks it is conventional of this genre which is an excellent comment to be made as I have worked very hard to make my product conventional. Due to these comments I did not just sit back and think 'my product must be fine' I went and got another opinion from another media student.

However these opinions were slightly different to the first ones. This audience feedback told me that she thought that I needed more music to create more atmosphere in the trailer. Also she thought the i needed to carry on my voiceovers and have more of them in the trailer to improve it. This was something I did not want to so as I have purposely used the police voiceover over the drug cutting scene as this leads into the two policemen knocking on the door.

having done these audience feedback i believe that you get so caught up sometimes in your work you can find it hard to criticise ideas that haven't worked. Using other media students who know what they are talking about and know what your trying to do allows them to helpfully criticise you and things they say almost trigger other little ideas and editing ideas in your head. Without doing any feedback I don't think me work would be to this standard.

Whilst working through my product I constantly ask what people think of this idea or that idea, this is also audience feedback although it is not recorded on my blog a simple conversation with my teacher of my class mates about my work gives me some ideas or ways to develop my trailer. An example of this was when i sat down with my teacher to watch my trailer and they said something about slow motion being used in 'Transporter 3' which then made me think about where it would be affective to use slow motion in my trailer. I then decided to use it when the main policeman was knocking on the door, and now I love that scene. It just shows how you can be doing audience feedback without noticing.

Overall I see this process as a vital element of evaluating and improving my media product.