Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I made this video using iMovie to answer this question. Apologies in advance for any mistakes- it was constructed in a fairly short space of time.

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Album Advert Target Audience Feedback

We asked our classmates to describe our advert in three words. In this GIF, each font represents a different person's opinion and each word in that font are the three words they suggested.
Upon receiving this feedback, I think we made the right decisions. These words are all words that we agree with, especially 'TRIPPY' and 'CRAZY'- that was the intended effect of making the colours so contrasting. The description of it being 'ORIGINAL' is also great- the indie genre is known to be original (the reason for it's creation). We certainly agree that it is original, neither of us had seen an album cover in this style before. 'COLOURFUL' is naturally the perfect description, it was our intent, feeding in to the description of 'TRIPPY'. In some ways I understand the adjective 'SIMPLE' in that it was a single photograph edited to a different colour scheme.  'IMAGINATIVE' is a wonderful compliment, we were definitely trying to break the boundaries with editing while remaining within the indie convention.

Final Video Feedback From Target Audience

These are mindmap/spider diagrams I created using the website bubbl.us, charting our target audience's feedback. Each colour corresponds to a single persons opinion, what they liked/what they disliked.
 Generally the feedback we received from this useful and true, it corresponded to our own thoughts about the final product. It was nice to see that many people understood the Hamlet/Shakespeare reference and saw the parallels in the narrative, with people offering different views on the homosexual element.  The nature shots were generally well received, but some felt that they were excessive, while others enjoyed them.  Overall, the reaction was strongly positive.