Audience Feedback

Audience feedback is highly significant when creating a media product, this is as it enables the individual who has created the product to gain an objective, outside view of what could possibly improved or altered. It also offers a range of differing views and opinions meaning that it is easier as a collective to come to a conclusion as to how something could be improved.

During audience feedback the entire class sat down together to view and discuss everybody's media products. Aswell as this, we each discussed our construction processes and what we found particularly difficult or enjoyable about it, enabling me to see that everybody was in the same boat in terms of this being a significant learning curve.

In terms of my own media product, the class was particularly positive which made me feel much more confident about the quality of my magazine.

The feedback consisted of:

Positives:

• High quality, striking cover image
• Simplistic features make for a unique style
• 'Clean' feel of magazine is attractive
• Range of colours used well
• Contents page is of particularly high quality and draws the reader in
• Title font of double page spread works well
• Images are well edited
• Good quality of prose
• Realistic - complies to codes and conventions well

Negatives:

• Some of the font on the cover page is difficult to read
• The text is quite small in places

As a result, I made larger spaces between the letters of the text on the homepage, thus making the text easier to read. I also ensured that all text on every page was readable.

NOTE TO EXAMINER

See research and planning sections in February and March archives of blog.