Evaluation: Audience Feedback

Question: What have you learnt from our audience Feedback?

In the music world, there is nothing more important in your career than your audience, your fans. Listening to what they have to say is critical to becoming the greatest artist you can be. After all our advertising, we believe our audience gave suitable feedback to know we are on the right track with our work, and that they enjoy it. We advertised our music video on facebook, youtube and twitter, and immediately allowed people to comment on our work and give us both positive and negative pointers on everything we do, from the music video, to our Digipak, to everything else we do with our band and company.

Our facebook page

Our comments and feedback have been guinely positive with our work. Alot of people believe our video was well made, and were shocked by how good it did look.

Youtube comments

After viewing these comments, I can tell that our video was praised by our audience, and we recieved generally positive feedback. Our fans also gave great ways on how to improve our work, as shown below

This helpes us to improve, and shows ways we worked well together and ways we didn't. Using this will help us improve our next piece of work.

Here is another example of praise.

Overall, our fans have been a great help in evaluating our musical performance. Thanks to them, we belive that we have created a really good musc video, with mistakes such as music syncing not being a problem at all, as well as really good camera shots. And the critism we recieved will help us when making future videos, which will hopefully attract more fans. And in this way, we can keep improving and keep tailouring to the guys that keep us going, and could prove to be a pinnacle part of our bands development

Evaluation: Conventions

Evaluation conventions

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Evaluation: Music Video and Ancillary tasks

How effective is the combination between our music video and ancillary tasks

Evaluation: Media Technology

The biggest media technology availible to use when starting our media project is the internet. The internet is a band's blank canvas for creativity, as they can advertise and express themselves in a variety of ways. We used the internet majorly throughout our project for a variety of reasons, including research, devlopment, planning, editing and broadcasting. 


We used the internet mainly for research. We observed how bands of a similar genre (including the artists of our songs) advertsie and interact with their fans, including the use of social networking sites and self webpages. We also researched music videos and artwork from bands, to establish the conventions of the genre in question and adapting it to our own work. We learnt from this that social networking sites are highly popular with bands and fans, as it is a quick and efficient way to communicate with each other, especially considering the amount of teenagers, the next generation of audience, are present on the sites. It is also a effective way to recieve feedback and to establish a general understanding of your fans. We also learnt the conventions shared between bands of a similar genres, and what ones are unique are altered by certain bands.


During our planning and development phases, we used the internet to reference other bands ideas, and see what works well and what would fit with our ideas. This is mostly used to check the song we were using, to see the bands original ideas and how we could twist them to provide a unique take on their work.

The internet was also used to broadcast our work to the world. We used sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud and youtube to show all sorts of people our work, in order to spread it around and gain feedback on our work. People could comment on Facebook and youtube about things they liked and things that needed improvement, and what we could do in the future. This is essential for small bands and companies such as our own, as no one will know of our existence, and we won't have the budget to advertise on media products such as billboards and television, whereas the internet is free as long as you can access it


We also used a variety of other media products during our production. One of these includes the editing software we used, Adobe Premier Pro. This program allowed us to upload the footage recorded with ease, and edit every detail of it until it was perfectly tailoured to our ideas. This made some of our ideas possible, as not only did the editing software made complex techniques possible, it also simplified them down to the point that new users could pick it up after a few hours practise. Using this software proved an essential aspect of our development, as it gave us the oppourtinity to test ideas to see if they worked or not, and allowed us to really finalise our work, rather than taking risks and not being able to see it first.

The camera was a digital camera, which allowed us to preview of cameras vision before recording, as well as watch the footage being recorded in action. It also allowed us to review footage after shooting it, to make sure we got the right footage, and that the footage we had was good enough. This helped the progress of our music video increase dramitcally, and proved a great help.


The final piece of software we used in our project was adobe Photoshop CS5. This software allowed us to edit the photos we took for our ancillary task. Using this, we turned our photos from colour to black and white, and made adjustments to the pictures, such as sharpening and blending, particularly around the hair and faces. We were also able to add text to our work, which was helpful for certain pictures of our digipak and our poster.

Without the internet, this blog and even this post would not have been availible. Blogger provided the tools needed to creat this blog, and other sites such as scribd and slideshare allowed us to put presentations on our work.  Without blogger, users would not be able to tracj iour development, and we wouldn't be able to pool our ideas together. Blogger creates a great template for feedback as well as development, seeing everything progress into a finished masterpiece. We created text posts, pictures, videos, presentations and much much more, all enhance and released to the world through blogger. It has been proven and invaluable tool, and our work would be of considerably worse quality without it.


We also used sites such as youtube to embed videos onto our work to show the viewers what music videos we're reseraching from.


Media technology played a huge role in our project, and it wouldn't be possible without them.

Evaluation overview

Now that we have finished creating our company, making our music video, and designing our poster and digipak designs, I can now evaluate this ears work to see what went well and what could have been improved on our product.  To do this, I will answer the following questions, relating them to my work where I can and noting both good and bad points.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the codes of conventions of real media products?

How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research planning and evaluation stages of your project?

Finished Poster

Finished DigiPak