Audience feedback session

At the start of todays session, I was waiting out side the room we use for our set, to record the audience feedback when Mike turned up and told me and Dave the session had been moved to 1:05. Although this was a annoying, Kirk worked on organising the group ready for the next available session, which was 1:05. After discussion with Nick (1/2 of cram creatives) he was ok with the new plan.

In order to get everything organised Kirk set about sorting the following:

• Informed everyone in the group of the new time (1.05).

• He made sure Tara had the new request forms completed and ready for the new time / focus group discussion.
  

• Checked that everyone was briefed about the discussion (people who are attending) Also made sure that Mike had gotten them ALL to sign model release forms
  

• Mike and Kirk then scouted for a new location / room in which we were able to hold the disscussion.
  

• Once all of this was secured Tim and I were able to get the Camera and Zoom mics (accordingly)

• Kirk then got his laptop so the audience could re-watch all three episodes together and went to the new room to record.
  

There were the following roles assigned for the session

Myself - Recorded audio with zoom mic (for transcript)

Tara - Question prompter

Mike - Question Prompter

Tim - Camera operator

Matt - Photographer

Kirk - Chairman (Minutes)

Success of the marketing

I decided to look how successful our marketing had been by searching for our web-series from the point of veiw of a fan and search the internet to see how easy it was too find the episodes, pages displaying info and and fan pages like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and the actual website. I'm only going to look at the first page of results as if people don't find it in the first page they usually just search something else.

I started by searching "Lines" in google, This gave me nothing to do with our web-series. i think this is because "Lines" is obviously a common word and there are far more, more popular sites with the word in it.

I decided that a more specific search would give more usefull results, with this in mind i searched "Lines Webisode" in google. this was, as i expected, a far more successful search. The first 2 results were our Myspace and Flickr pages and the 6th result was the Facebook page. This is pretty much a perfect result from the search as from both the Facebook and Myspace pages you are able to access all of our other pages with links.

Viewings graphs.

Here are two pie charts and a bar graph Tim and Tara made in lesson whilst i was uploading footage, the first shows the percentage of how people viewed the 1st episode, you can see that by far facebook is the most common way to view the episode, this was because from release at 7pm untill about 10pm i was posting the link every 15 - 20 minuets in a kind of viral marketing technique making sure it was in peoples live feed constantly. the next biggest is the youtube views, this is from people who are friends with us on youtube and viewing it directly from the page.

The second graph shows that the veiws of episode 2 have shifted even more so to facebook and is clearly the most successful way we have advertised the show and the easiest way for people to view the show.

This third graph shows how many views each episode has had day by day. as episode 3 has only been out for three days there are obviously no results for it past day 3, however on the first three days you can see episode one is far more popular than the other two. this is because of the amount we had built it up and gotten people excited about it by posting constant information and mini teasers of what it was going to be like. as each episode came out less people watched because it was wasn't AS exciting because they knew what it was about after the first one and only people that genuinely enjoyed it continued to watch.

Peer Feedback

Peer feedback
A couple of interesting shots
Strange narrative, cannot understand it (7 People mentioned this)
Cuts well
Characters work well
Sound levels are high & low (5 people mentioned this)
Taster bit / preview works well (3 people mentioned this)
Too much in one content in one episode (2 people mentioned this)
Good angles used
Jumps too much
Pointless shots used
Confusing genre (comedy or drama?)
Acting is not very good, could be better
Spy could of been done better, e.g appears in the room like is the skeleton
Silent moments ned sorting out
Need quicker cuts
Continuity works well
'Jaws' sound / music cuts in too suddenly & drops out to early



Teacher feedback (Pete)
Continuity with previous episode (costume, scripting) works well
Elliot's character has been developed well
Use of jaws music?
Suddenly goes silent
Much better editing than the 1st episode
Add footage, where it goes black / silent?
Like the taster for episode 3 at the end

Here is feedback that we had recieved from everyone in our class including ourselves and our teacher Pete.

Again people mentioned about the sound levels being a bit off. The main point that came up was that people are finding it hard to understand what is going on with the whole storyline. I think next time we need to try and think up of a better script, people had mentioned this about the first episode. The sound levels again are off, some ar elow some are high, need to always change the volume level of the computer/laptop to be able to enjoy the video.
People had said that the preview of the next episode was really good, and it helped them try to understand what is going to happen next