what have you learned from your audience feedback? - a2 media evaluation

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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK? Audience feedback is a crucial stage of the film making process. This is because it enables you to allow others opinion and what have been created and how it could be improved. My initial task, to gain audience feedback, was to create a survey. I Created a simple survey for potential audience members to complete after watching my documentary. This was a task that I found very useful because it allowed me to discover issues that I did not realise myself, this is why I believe that it is always beneficial to have a second opinion on my work. One of the faults that was made evident, was the non- diegetic sound over the interviews was dominating because of the volume. As an outcome I increased the volume of the sound on the footage and decreased the volume on the non diegetic sound.

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1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK? Audience feedback is a crucial stage of the film making process. This is because it enables you to allow others opinion and what have been created and how it could be improved. My initial task, to gain audience feedback, was to create a survey. I Created a simple survey for potential audience members to complete after watching my documentary. This was a task that I found very useful because it allowed me to discover issues that I did not realise myself, this is why I believe that it is always beneficial to have a second opinion on my work. One of the faults that was made evident, was the non-diegetic sound over the interviews was dominating because of the volume. As an outcome I increased the volume of the sound on the footage and decreased the volume on the non diegetic sound. 2. Documentary Film Festival. Whilst my documentary was in working progress, a documentary film festival was organised. This enabled me to showcase my documentary again, but to a much wider audience. On the day of the film festival I gave a brief talk about the documentary, as well as asking for critical feedback, as this would have been that last opportunity I had to reach such a large group before the final completion of the editing process of my documentary. The film festival was a huge success as we had members from all over the academy attend to watch and critique my documentary. This was an opportunity for more surveys to be completed. In addition to this, there were 2 awards available at the film festival; the winner and the special mention. The specification of The Winner was the documentary that was technically most proficient and the all round best example of documentary film making. The special mention was for the documentary that the audience enjoyed the most. My documentary, Breakthrough Mentoring, was the winner of the documentary; which I was really pleased about. This portrays that the reaction to my documentary was a good one. 3. Final Summary Finally, I believe that the completion of my documentary and ancillary tasks was a huge success. I am significantly happy and proud of what have been produced. Especially the documentary. This is because the Breakthrough Mentoring project have made a huge impact on my own personal life and I had the opportunity to show other people how good the service is. Whilst planning to film this, I knew that some parts would be challenging because other young people would need to talk about their own lives. It would have been great if I would have had the opportunity to create a full feature documentary and not just a five minute section. If this would have been the case I would have had the opportunity to include more contextual and background information about the service and how the referral process works, as well as more stories from young people. However, I believe that what I have produced sets the story about the service really well.