Q3 - Evaluation

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM

YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?

CHARLOTTE MARTIN

ANCILLARY TASK PEER FEEDBACK

After I was able to start my ancillary tasks, I created many drafts and asked my peers for feedback. We all did this

together in our class as our opinions mattered to one another. We did this by going to each others computers and looking at

what everybody had created, we gave one another great feedback and also targets and room for improvement. This plan of action helped me to think more creatively and have an open

mind when looking at my peers feedback. The feedback I received was mixed, mainly targets to improve were small

adjustments and mistakes that I fixed right away.

Overall, the feedback from my fellow peers really did help me improve my own coursework, as well as gaining inspiration from my other classmates and learning different skills and Photo shop techniques that I was able to adapt to my own

work.

EXAMPLES OF PEER FEEDBACK RECEIVED

AUDIENCE RESEARCH FEEDBACK I created a questionnaire, for my peer audience ranging from different ages and genders. This was very important for my coursework as it enabled me to decide what kind of documentary style my audience enjoy. I personally think it is extremely important to give my questionnaire to a wide range of ages

and genders as every individual has a different opinion and interpretation of documentaries. It really interested me to see what style of documentary the

majority of my audience preferred. Despite the fact my documentary is targeted at young girls and teenagers who could perhaps suffer with the

same victimisation that Penelope herself did, my audience is also the general public. I think getting this message and warning out to the general public is a

very important thing to do as everybody may be affected by these crimes, not just the girls/people affected by such attack.

I wanted my target audience of young adults to be happy with the final piece, so I valued their opinion very much in the documentary style decision

making. It was very helpful to have their advice and opinion at this very early decision making stage. The feedback received enabled me to improve my

final pieces.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK I RECEIVED Here, are some of the answers I received from my documentary questionnaire. I took these all into

consideration when choosing my documentary genre and story line, due to my target audience over all opinion. I

chose to have more music than ambient sound, to create a documentary style similar to ‘24 hours in A & E’ (with the

action and interviews) and to involve both observation and factual voice overs. This is my ideal style that I want to

create, my feedback has enabled me to learn my audience feel that documentaries should have meaning, instead of

following famous people around their town for entertainment, a documentary should be factual and have pure meaning based upon real events or to get a particular

message across.

Which do you prefer?Observational Factual Voice Over Other- Reflective

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PEER FEEDBACK I have received feedback from my peers through

creating a documentary presentation, this presentation enabled me to narrow down

particular choices I would soon make for my documentary coursework. We, as a group,

created a power point asking seven questions to get more feedback from our class. Our class

contains a group of 17-18 year olds (this is the general audience we are attempting to target due to all the victims being around the same

age.)

To the right are some examples of the sort of questions we asked our focus group. These responses were all quite similar, this was fantastic as it ensured our choices were correct and we took their opinions into much consideration. We achieved great success in our focus group feedback, it was very enjoyable and I learnt that most young adults like similar types of shows/documentaries.

PEER FEEDBACKOur focus group responses were very positive and resulting in us deciding:

o To create an observational documentary, with added interviews

o Have factual voice overs as well as interviews

o Be on between 7.30 & 10pm for my target audience

o Be 1 hour long

o It would be seen on a channel 4 as a drama, but we have created our own institution.

All of these choices were ones in which we had already thought about considering, we knew our target audience would want these things. By creating a mix of the observational and interactive styles of documentary, we are creating what our audience want to see. This seems to fit perfectly with our storyline idea. However, our audience chose the channel ‘E4’ for our documentary to feature on. This is due to the age range being from 17 to 18, E4 is a popular channel for TV shows and teen dramas. However, our documentary is not a typical drama that is watched for entertainment purposes, it is a serious Crime Watch-like documentary that needs a serious audience of viewers who are concerned and want to learn/have knowledge of different things happening in and around the world. We have decided our documentary would feature on a TV channel such as Channel 4 to add to their dramas. I personally enjoy watching Channel 4 dramas so this fits in perfectly.

Yet, we did not want our documentary to feature on a channel that we haven’t created, so we have decided to create our own institution and channel. We took inspiration from Channel 4 and watched many of their dramas to decide how to create a serious drama documentary. We have decided to name our intuition ‘ACE PRODUCTIONS’, this is the creators of the documentary coming together to show their input and creation to warn the public.

OVERALL The feedback I received on my ancillary texts was very useful and enabled me to

alter my coursework and listen to advice. By making little alterations and correcting little mistakes I did not notice, I learnt how to improve my work by

using online tutorials to increase my Photoshop skills. I learnt that my advertisement needs to be as effective as possible, I achieved this through

creating a dark smoky background blending two images together, not necessarily neatly, to create a broken mysterious interpretation to the audience.

The feedback I received on my documentary planning enabled me to give the majority of the audience what they preferred to

see in a documentary. Their opinion is very important to enhance the reality of my documentary and really have an

understanding of what creating moving image is like, in the real world. From my peer feedback I learnt that I need to adapt

skills gained and observations from different Channel 4 dramas to create my own drama to feature on this channel. I

understand that I have created a documentary that is half observational, meaning I have re-enactments of the crime and quick shots of the environment separated with jump cuts. I also have interviews dominating, this enables the audience to listen

to the victims stories and the real torture and horrendous affects the crimes have made on the victims, teachers,

neighbours and friends of the girls.