How
I would get feedback from my animation
Getting feedback on your own work is just another task for
you to perform. You need to get your work in front of other people’s eyes so
they can view it and give their opinion. Just finishing your work and hoping
someone sees it isn’t good enough, you have to try and try till you get
feedback. To start off with, the easiest and simplest thing to do is to put the
animation onto YouTube. Millions and millions people visit the site every day
to look at new and old videos; this is a perfect place to get feedback. Everyone
has their own opinion on YouTube and feels like they’re god’s gift to the world
so I expect someone to bring some feedback. But sometimes, people might watch
the video but not comment or like the video to give me feedback. I will still
leave the ident on YouTube to wait for feedback (if ever I get any) and then I
will update my feedback with the comments from YouTube.
Another way is through interactive face to face. This is the
quickest method in my opinion which gives you instant feedback instead of
messing about with technology. Obviously I can’t just go up to a person and
say, ‘what do you think of my animation?’ First of all they haven’t even seen
the animation and they can’t just write feedback on a white blank piece of
paper. They will need certain questions that you want to know in particularly.
This is when it comes to a feedback sheet, which I need to create myself. The
feedback sheet needs to have questions about what the animation but also
questions about what I want to know for my own personal reasons. I want the
questions that I have in my head about the animation to be answered so I will
put them on the feedback sheet. But that just doesn’t cut it yet, its missing
the final element; I actually have to show the animation to an audience. Now,
this isn’t hard to show to audience because being in a media class it’s quite
easy to present it to everyone, and get feedback immediately. So this way is
very easy.
The final way I could get feedback is pushing it in my
opinion. Don’t get me wrong, it’s possible, but I just don’t myself getting
feedback at all through this method. Now, I thought of sending my animation to
a few companies and places which might want to see it. I know straight up that
my animation is nothing special, but I think that’s what makes it special. So,
I thought of sending it to companies like Sky to see if I get any feedback. I
know this is not likely to happen, but it is still worth a complete try. Other
places were channels like Channel 4 (I thought of Channel 4 straight away
because they are always looking for new original ideas which are like nothing
else) and MTV (which is another where they are always looking for new talent to
reach out to). I plan to do this method by emailing all of the companies
through their appropriate email addresses but I don’t expect any feedback
anytime soon.
Feedback
I got my feedback back, and my first impression was nothing
like I expected. When I finished my animation I was quite proud of it. It was
simple yet explained everything that happens with a colourful bang. But once, I
gave it in I regretted it. I don’t even know why; I think it was because I
thought it looked to childish and simple to be taken serious as a genuine. So
when I got my feedback I expected the worst straight away. That my animation
was meant for a ‘younger audience’ and they didn’t ‘get it’. But no; it was all
great feedback.
I first put my animation onto YouTube to get feedback. I
didn’t expect any feedback but I did in fact, I got feedback straight away
within an hour, just off one person on YouTube though. The user named ‘AllysonKu55’
says “Can you say AWESOME! I can’t believe that your video isn’t getting more
vieWs, Ӏ mean come on people! It almost makes me angry that videos this good
haven’t gotten the views they deserve.”
I know what you’re thinking; just appalling at putting
sentences together but I just read it as it was. Now this is feedback
obviously, but it’s not the feedback I was hoping for to be honest. The user
didn’t say anything productive that can help me turn this into feedback, he
just liked the animation and got angry because I wasn’t generating more views.
So very much a pointless exercise, but at least I got feedback.
The next way of getting feedback was through my class. All
of my class watched my animation all at the same time and I gave them feedback
sheets which I created myself. These are the questions I put on the sheet:
1: Do you think my
animation is creative?
If no, what could I
have done to make the animation more creative?
2: I wanted to make my
animation as simple as possible because I believe big budget idents are
pointless. Would you say my animation is simple to understand?
Explain why…
3: I decided to make
my ident for Sky Arts, so I chose a different target audience. What age group
do you think I am attracting with my ident?
(Boxes of different
choices were shown for my class to choice)
Explain why…
On every single feedback sheet that I got back, every one
said that they thought my animation was creative, so this was positive feedback
straight away. This meant nobody thought it could be more creative which I
disagreed with to be honest. Even I thought the animation could have been more
creative. Second question again was answered with the same answer as ‘yes’ to
being simple to understand. But I added the extra ‘explain why’ to get more
feedback. This is how I would get answers from individual people instead of
just the same answer on each page; that doesn’t give me any progress for my
report. Each person in my class had something different to say but it mostly
interpreted to the same thing. The animation was simple to follow and effective
in its use, it mainly did what it was trying to achieve; not be big and
visually stunning, but simple and linking with the channel that I am working for.
This was another positive outcome from the feedback sheet which I was really
happy about, mainly because my class had got what I was trying to achieve with
animation. The final question was where it got mixed and I the answers became
interesting. From the feedback, some of my class mates thought that I was
trying to make the ident appeal more towards a younger audience so they will be
interested in Sky Arts, some thought it was heading towards a teenage audience
but most thought it was towards an adult audience with the channel being Sky
Arts. All of the answers were positive to me because it meant that different
people had different ideas about the ident, which I was trying to achieve. I
liked this. Finally everyone’s answer was the last thing to read through. With
the text box, I made my class write a couple of sentences to explain why they
chose the category they chose in the boxes. This was a half and half sided
answers. Half the answers were saying that the ident was very simple which made
it very retro, which is what Sky Arts tries to do. So the ident works quite
well at hitting at the target audience I was trying to achieve. The other half
of the answers were because of it being a cartoon and very basic, it points
towards a younger audience, which is okay it reaches out to adults alike, but
it’s hitting at children and teenagers. So the answers were very mixed.
Overall, my class mates were agreeable with what I was out to achieve which was
create a retro ident which was basic enough to be made on Adobe Flash. I
achieved my goal but also hit another, which was a hit another target audience
which is a younger audience.
I never received any more feedback from any other sources
like Sky, Channel 4 (which I wasn’t expecting) but I also didn’t get any feedback
from any social messaging sites that I use either. I put the ident on sites
like Twitter and Facebook as soon as I finished, but no feedback was given, but
it doesn’t matter, I have enough feedback to go on.
To conclude then, my animation received the feedback that I
was hoping for and more. My feedback said that my animation was a success with
achieving what I was trying to aim for in the first place, and aiming for a
younger audience too, which is something I wasn’t even trying to do, which is
even better. So overall, very successful feedback.
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