Evaluation: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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First and foremost, my best exchanges were between myself and my friend Ronan, who is also on the OCR course. He'll probably appear a lot in this post, so I thought I should drop in an example of how we also shared ideas on his blog when I was involved a little in his poster design:
http://ronana2.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-poster-development.html

Audience feedback was extremely useful throughout the project, even in the research stage. The nicest thing of it all was just to feel like people were reading and responding to what I was writing...

When I researched the Butterfly Effect for example, I got things such as :

I also received little encouraging remarks along the way, simply affirming that what I was doing was going down well.

The above image shows how audience feedback sort of inspired me partly to keep going with the face paint idea and incorporate it into my final trailer. Similarly, audience feedback was useful when I abandoned ideas such as 'Breakfast'...

The text at the top of the image shows some feedback I received on YouTube on this video as well. You can see from this that although people seemed to like the idea I had, no one could actually see the direction it was going in. I couldn't either.

My first rough edit got a lot of feedback, which you can see below.

Comments here can be related to my finished teaser trailer. I abandoned a lot of the footage from my first edit and put much faster cuts in the final product, reflecting feedback here that showed people found speed to be effective.
Similarly, I got a lot of feedback as I was developing my ideas for the posters, which can be seen below.

When I put my final teaser trailer on YouTube it was also nice to be found by students from other schools who commented on my work. In response, I went and left them comments and had a brief exchange about each others work. Although it came too late for them to suggest any criticisms, they were helpful in just being reassuring that someone I didn't know liked my trailer...

Additionally, when I put my trailer on Facebook to show Dan a few minutes after I'd first finished editing it, I recieved a good response:

The thing with Facebook was interesting, because I was able to reach a wider audience than I was intially with the blog. Most young people today can navigate Facebook with ease, whilst blogger is less used and understood. I think commenting on Facebook requires less effort on their part, and it also feels even less formal than blogger does.