What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Once i had completely finished my music video, I uploaded it onto YouTube to gather some audience feedback and so that people around the world could access it and view it. Although YouTube is the most popular video sharing site around the world, not many people knew that my video had been uploaded, therefore i looked at other ways to share my video so I would be able to get some feedback. The first thought that popped into my head was social networking sites, as these are also used around the world. The most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter as many people use these. Therefore I thought it would be a good idea to post my video through a status on Facebook so that my friends and family could give me some feedback. Although I do have a Twitter account, I rarely use it, therefore I didn't want to post my video on the site. I knew that this would reduce the amount of possible feedback that I could of received but I was more than happy with just putting it on Facebook. When I posted it onto Facebook, I was happy to welcome any positive or negative feedback.

I knew that if people watched my music video and liked it, they would press the 'like' button available to them. This was clear as a number of people were pressing the 'like' button and also leaving comments for me to see. As more and more people came across my video on Facebook, the more the views were going up on Youtube. In a day, before my video was posted on to Facebook, it had received 10 views. When I put it onto Facebook, in less than a week it had 74 views. The comments on Facebook were very positive, one person expressed which particular bit of my video they liked the most, I thought this was nice of them to do that. Others had high hopes for me and spoke about future job careers in the media, which I thought was very positive. As well as the audience feedback I have learn a lot from social interaction within the media from sites such as YouTube and Facebook.

From looking back over my audience feedback I have learnt that it plays a big part in knowing what people think and how media is consumed today. For my video the feedback showed that it was success as i never received any negative feedback. This is what I was hoping for as I had spent so long creating it and the ancillary tasks to go with it. I was overall happy with the response and felt proud of myself for completing everything and getting the response i had hoped for.