What have you learned from your audience feedback?

My group all undertook some audience feedback by fellow peers and people we know. We uploaded our video to facebook for people like family and friends to comment on and to see their inital reaction to it as theyve never seen it before. Feedback by friends and family outside of school were more useful as it was their first time seeing it and had their opinions set after watching it, however fellow peers in media know what to expect and can be more critical and know what they are looking for. Our audience feedback was  mainly focussed on the lip synching and the meeting of conventions and forms. We wanted peoples first reaction to be that it was a Hip Hop video and we wanted them to comment on why its Hip Hop and what makes it Hip Hop. We also wanted to find out on what people felt about the lip synching and if it was realistic and in time. The feedback we got was quite good and fair and was constructive and useful. Much of our feedback mentioned that we met the conventions however some parts could of been portrayed better than others and that perhaps the audience could feel more connection with the artist. Other ways in which we gathered feedback was to ask people to watch it and than to film them giving their views on the video and what they thought of it. We managed to film a couple of friends who didnt do media and get their natural reaction about it.This proved effective and really gave us an insight of how our film came across and how it made people feel. Many people commented on the great use of shots and the unique locations we used and how the scenary worked well with the genre we were trying to create. Also mise en scene such as props and costumes were commented on and many agreed that the props and costume Luke was in fitted the genre as it was very 'Street' and 'Urban' via the Gucci hat and Nike trainers. The feedback gave us a real insight about a film and how hard it can be and how vital it is to meet conventions