What have you learned from audience feedback?

Audience feedback allows me to communicate with my ‘target audience’ and enable them to look at my work. Feedback is significant in my research and creative process as it shows my progression and what I should be doing to improve. I had to find out what my target audience wanted to see in my product. To do this, I created surveys, target audience profiles and made a Facebook page including people who I would see as my audience. In addition, teachers feedback was important for me to see my strengths and weaknesses and work on areas o improvement with support.

Media Questions (Facebook Feedback Page)

By creating this feedback page on social media, it has allowed me to interact with my target audience to see what they like about my magazine and talk about what they want inside my products. My peers and class members have had their opinions on my work throughout my A2 year, allowing me to make my work better than AS. My aim is to engage with my target audience so that I know I am including the right contents. This page has been very helpful in order for me to follow a direct genre. My audience response has allowed me to show my work to others and see what they like or don’t like, therefore, it makes my work more valuable for my audience to see as I have included their ideas.

SurveysAs part of my research, I created an audience survey via Survey Monkey. This gave me evidence to support my ideas and show information about my target audience. It showed how I changed areas of my products based on my audiences views and characteristics. The sorts of questions I asked in the survey would find out the dominant gender, age, interests and media they were into. From this, I could identify areas of interest and include them in my magazine, making it easier for me to appeal to a specific audience. I used my findings to make my products have a distinctive style to interest my readers.

Teachers Feedback

I feel like this year, teachers feedback has been more efficient and helpful. Throughout my coursework and media products, my lecturer has commented on my posts to say what I have done well and where to improve. Having support along the way has enabled me to make my work more professional and make sure that I am on the right track. As the process has gone on with my products, I have printed them out along the way so that my lecturer has kept track of my work and made sure I am using their help to improve. I think that teachers feedback is very important as you need to have that help and support to make sure you are doing your work right. If I didn’t have that, it would mean that I am not improving my weaknesses, therefore, making my work less appealing to my audience.