Name: Jack O’BrienCandidate number: 4669Aquinas College: 33435

OCR G324Advanced Production

3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?

Finding the audience for The Edge:

The programmes which are shown on television currently that fit the bracket for my target audience are:

• Hollyoaks• Hollyoaks later

• Made in Chelsea • The Only Way is Essex

E4 is the most popular digital channel in the UK amongst 16-34yr olds. This is the reason for me putting The Edge onto the channel.

Even though my characters don’t relate to students from colleges and universities in which they can relate to. But through the theory of Lacan people will want to watch this and mirror themselves against the characters and shape themselves to match them. This is seen when people watch TOWIE and comment wishing they were someone else.

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Positive feedback from audience:The audience were impressed with the inclusion of E4 video at the start with flies sticking to the E4 logo but also the use of a voice over to address my soap. This made my trailer even more effective but also was told that it made it look even more like an E4 programme.

They were also impressed with the voice over used at the end. They liked the editing of cutting the digetic sound and moving over the soundtrack.

Positive feedback from audience:3 MAIN STORYLINES CONSIST OF: RELATIONSHIPS, DRUGS AND MURDER:

I also learnt that from my storyline they were solid but also easily identifiable to the audience. The audience could understand the 3 storylines throughout the trailer and said that they were 3 good storylines that audiences could relate to. 3 images to the right portray the 3 storylines.

SONG CHOICE:

The audience were pleased with the song choice as it was both up-beat but also reached the style of music in which E4 used which is what I wanted. They also liked the link of my lyrics and editing with the flash card. Which was said to be really affective in my trailer.

Changes that they would wanted to made:When listening to Pandora asking questions to Preston, the audience became confused as it kept cutting to the next question continuously. For improvement I would cut out maybe one of the questions and with the skills I gained throughout media I would merge in Preston's dialogue of a returned answer.

Another criticism that I received was at the end of my trailer with a still image of Preston and Pandora, the audience didn't understand why they were used.

One storyline is of a murder taken place and no ones knows who did it. But before the murder takes place we see a still image of Preston and Pandora. The audience found it pointless and not needed. Instead I should just take it out and add a flash card with maybe a riddle to give it more of a mysterious feeling.

Final billboard poster with changes made from audience feedback.

I uploaded my 2nd billboard poster onto blogger and received some audience feedback which is seen below. It consisted of being told that it was a good idea but “not sure the face merges into the background” I am happy that I received this feedback as I was able to improve it and make it appeal to my target audience.

Audience feedback on ancillary Billboard product:

My audience feedback survey:

After conducting 6 surveys giving them to my target audience. I did class feedback as well.

The following 2 slides are of pictures taken from my survey. This is for evidence to show that I conducted the survey. I have also analysed the results.

Audience feedback results: EVALUATED

5/6 people who watched my trailer said ‘YES’ my trailer does suit E4:

From receiving these results I am pleased with the outcome. This shows that I have done my research on E4 and turning my soap to meet the E4 conventions. Also shows that my planning was professional and

effective for it to fit well.

6/6 people said ‘YES’ from watching my trailer and it was portrayed very clear:

From receiving this feedback I am happy with the results that my trailer makes sense. From important research by watching numerous videos to help me plan a well narrative trailer. I am happy that my hard research has paid

off.

4/6 people said ‘YES’ to watching The Edge on E4 on a weekly basis

I am really happy after receiving these results showing that my trailer is eye catching to the audience. I find that this is the most crucial question as it shows whether the quality of work is good enough and from my results mine

is.

Audience feedback results: EVALUATED

6/6 people said ‘YES’ when watching the trailer and agreeing to the target audience being 16-22yrs of age:

I am happy with the results I received. This shows that I planned well and researched well into programmes that are in comparison to mine. Therefore it has been crucial and successful as seen in the results.

6/6 people said ‘YES’ from watching my trailer that I used camera, editing and location to its full potential:

From receiving these results from the audience I am happy to receive a full house consisting of yes’s showing how my skills on editing and planning of camera shots and location have worked together to make it really

effective.

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I used the internet and general knowledge to research on the generic convention and aspects included to reach similar if not the same target audience.