Evaluation Question 4

As a group we all required audience feedback in numerous ways, the first of which was through social networking. Myself and a group member both decided that we would obtain audience feedback by posting our documentary on to Twitter and Facebook. We also told people about the possibility of watching the production YouTube, but this process of gathering audience feedback was nowhere near as effective as it was via the means of social networking. We felt that this would be the most effective way of achieving good audience feedback as teenagers and people within my age group tend to spend lots of their time on websites, like Facebook and Twitter, and this would be effective for us as it gives the wider audience and ourselves to hear their opinions through commenting on the link and also liking it. We also tried to gather opinions of more high profile characters because on twitter we tried to get the response of Sky sports representatives Bryan Swanson and Frasier Dainton along with Adam Smith (Baby Elvis) from Soccer AM.

 

Here is some screen shots to provide of evidence of the work we did in the attempt to provide ourselves with audience feedback.

On a whole the audience feedback that we received through social networking sites wasn’t too satisfactory as the comments that we received was basically surrounding one of the interviewees as oppose to the work that we did constructing the documentary on a whole, apart from one, which stated ‘Good, exciting interviews’ Despite it being a vague response and not constructive criticism it was still enough for us to feel relatively good about ourselves. Another piece of audience feedback I received was via email. As the video was already on YouTube, I received an e-mail from a friend with her critical response. This piece of text was a lot more in depth and had great analysis of the documentary that we were originally looking for when we published the Documentary on to both Twitter and Facebook.  Crucially the piece of constructive criticism spoke about the codes and conventions of the documentary that we tried to incorporate into our final piece and with good analysis it give us a sense of relief that we had fulfilled our targets to inform and entertain the wider audience.