We Could Be Grateful: Audience Feedback Video

This is a video of some of my audience feedback.

Final Cut

This is my Final Cut for my A2 Media Studies music video.

Music: We Could Be Heroes by Alesso ft. Tove Lo. Cover by: The Madison Letter

Thank you to everyone who has let me film them, without you this wouldn't have happened.

This final draft is slightly different to the storyboard as audience feedback was taken into account and I used the camera in portrait hold instead of shooting landscape all the time because I wanted to focus on a variety of events mainly the diving. If anyone wants to make further comments then please feel free to do so, it would be much appreciated. Thank you & Enjoy! 😊 x

Evaluation Question 3

Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I used surveymonkey to create this survey for my video:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QVBJ7BS

The sample size isn’t sufficient, for it to be sufficient I would need to ask 100 people more and this I couldn’t do.

The feedback I received was all quite positive which I was pleased about. A few people commented they weren't too sure they liked the portrait clips. I used these as my video is not a story/film as such but more like a Sports /advertisment video that could possibly be used for the Olympic/Paralympic games.  I notice on many sports trailers there are often still portrait shots at intervals and I have tried to capture this by including my portrait shots. I also think some of them were really good so I wanted to include them.

Here is the video I recorded for audience feedback.  I found it essential to get this feedback even though I didn't need to make any changes at this point but it means that I had produced a media product that appealed to my target audience, as my final media product was more mass market than niche, according to my secondary research from YouGoc/Profiles. Almost half of this class were in the age range of my target audience with a few either side of the 18-24.  This then allowed me to make final alterations to my media product based up this audience feedback.

Evaluation Question 2

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

By looking at artist's digipaks and posters, I can see that mine are very similar to theirs. 

My poster has an image on it from the video and so does One Direction's as the images on their poster are in their music video, both posters also have the song title on and who the song is by.

A lot of the adverts and  digipak covers had negative space on them which allowed space for text to be added. My advert has lots of negative space around the focus of the cover so text could be added. My digipak has the title of the song on it and so does Alesso's.   I've added a few images to make the digipak interesting instead of Alesso's white cover. This was done to create a distinctive look to the cover but at the same time is it takes reference from my research.

Digipak 2

Having gained some audience feedback from friends and family, I made a few changes to my final cover.  They thought it would be a good idea to include a link for fans to watch the final media product. So i created a QR Code in QR Code generator and created another layer in CC. The links takes fans back to my Youtube page and the music video.

We Could Be Heroes draft 3

Draft 3 of my video - underwater filming has been added as it adds a different perspective and adds a different camera angle. Earlier audience feedback had suggested I should use vary my camera shots where possible so I thought underwater shots would add drama to the video.  😊

Evaluation Question 4

Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

To film the footage I mainly used my Nikon DS3200.  I also used my Ricoh WG-30 for some of the diving and horse clips.  Because the Ricoh is waterproof it was used for the underwater filming.

When using my Nikon I often used a tripod as I had to shoot for a long time and the tripod helped to steady the filming.

I used my iPhone 4s and 6s for the voice recording.  All the editing was done on my MacBook Pro using software applications iMovie and Photoshop which enabled me to piece together the movie, make the poster and digipak.  

I used my IPhone when I was out on location when it wasn't practical to have my Macbook Pro with me, so I could make notes and ideas as I went. It also meant that I could blog on the move.

This was invaluable, I used it as a storage device, and editing tool. It made the rending of the music video really quick and any changes that needed to made we also easy to do. 

I used iMovie to edit the video, it is simple compared to Premiere Pro but it allowed me to effectively edit my videos so they had a professional look to them.  

I used CC to edit my photos for the ancillary tasks this included adding text to photos which I have never done before. Using CC allowed me greater creative freedom than using a program like Pixlr. I could add layer upon layer when creating my digipak which I would have found impossible in other programs.

To design my feedback surveys I used a variety of methods.  Survey Monkey, created a blog and used an email client, gmail.  I also used Facebook for feedback.
To write documents I have used the application 'pages' on my Mac which I then copied to my blog. I used you tube to upload draft videos to enable people easier access to view.  Applications such as 'prezi' and 'wordle' were useful for my presentation and text. I got ideas for my mind map for my video from Bubble.us. 

I found blogger useful because it allowed people to see my work as it progressed, I could use my IPhone on the go to add more content and my teacher could also check my progress and give advice where needed.

I emailed a number of images backwards and forwards during the course of the unit.

I used Facebook to promote my video and any surveys I created so I could get audience feedback and act upon it.

I used pages on my Macbook Pro if I didn't have any interest connection so I could still jot down ideas. 

Youtube was great for showing my videos, I could also embed the content into my blog very easily rather than upload it to Blogger directly.

Was very useful for creating simple easy to read presentations.

I used this to generate my first thoughts on the process. It helped focus my mind.

To capture the moment my Diving Coach dropped me from the 5M board I set up my Nikon camera and tripod by the side of the pool. Setting first the zoom lens I then programmed the camera to automatically record. 

The underwater filming which I really wanted to do was always going to be a bit tricky. because of my disability and poor balance I am unable to stay under the water and film at the same time.  One of the GB divers helped me out with this by holding onto me whilst I was in the water  - which is why it is only a few seconds - so I could film a little steadier.  I first filmed Aidan diving from the board above water and then on his second dive I positioned myself to get the underwater shot.  It took a few attempts but we managed eventually.  There were lifeguards around the pool as other diving classes were running at the same time.


A lot of the equipment made filming, taking notes and editing work really easy especially if I was away from my Mac. It meant I could work anywhere I needed to.