Audience Feedback.

When doing our questionnaire we found it best to do a hard copy rather than a blog as we knew we would get a better feedback because not many people use blogs. We handed our questions out to late teenagers 17/18+ both female and male, this helped us get a wider knowledge of what suited other people. The majority of the audience that had got back to use were majority female, this worked out better for us as we knew that females would sympathise more with our main character also the story would appeal more to them.
When handing out the questionnaires our main concern was that the audience would not understand the story, that it might not be clear enough to the audience. It was hard trying to reveal the story bit by bit without giving away the twist, once we had the feedback, our questionnaire audience re-enforced that the story line would be fine and clear to the audience and that it was not that complicate to follow. All though some responses did tell us that we needed to make the part and the end clear for it to work, we needed to add a flashback or more than the photo to tell us that the boy was the ex, we made sure of this by added the flashbacks of the boy 'Alex' at the end as we thought that the was the best idea, and as it was an idea from a viewer it would work more than most ideas we would come up with as a group.
We tried to mix up our questions so that people would give us a view about everything and even some advice, we asked 'Are the drugs/alcohol a good idea to include in this kind of video?'. We asked this because we believe that this was an issue we realised could cause most problems, but because most of our viewers would be 18 and above that they would be sensible enough to know that it was just a video. People responded well to this question as we had hoped, this helped us improve our video by editing well on the parts that involved drugs and aggressiveness when smashing the bottles. the positive feedback included 'The drugs and part violence gives it the edge that is involved in a drum&bass genre' also 'This stuff happens everyday with drugs and alcohol, its good to confront it because its in the environment we live in'. This type of feedback was encouraging for us so we continued with out positive attitude with the drugs and alcohol use in our video.
When we was editing we was worried about the speed of our song because it has so many fast paced and slow paced parts it's hard too keep control with the shot's, we did not want the viewers to be caught up in the fast paced editing and then find the slow parts boring, we asked a question to our audience about this, ''what do you particularly like the most about the music video?'' the responses was good as people said the editing worked well with the timing of the music, one reply said 'the slow parts of the music was the best, the rocky-ness of the camera made it exciting and they seemed deeper and darker than most parts of the video' - This was a good response and what we hoped for, also the way the included the 'dark and deep' bits worked well to our advantage as this was how we wanted our video to be portrayed.
We had good responses to our point of view shots especially the one on the bridge, one response told us 'The shot on the bridge, when looking up to the sky made it different to what most people do, even though it was a long shit and was stable, it still kept me interested'. This was a brilliant feedback as even the long shots did not bore people as we thought they would, it is good to hear that some of our shots our different to most video's, this gives us the sense of individuality which is what we aimed for at the very beginning of our project.

We also asked questions about our promo packs to see how they would come across to our audience. We had good feedback from this also, we asked 'If you see this as a CD pack would it appeal to you to buy it?' - Our responses went well talking about our individual photo's majority of people preferred our front picture, 'the colours are eye catching and the effects on the photo also the type of photo suits Pendulum'. This was a brilliant feedback that was received, as the majority of people liked the front picture we was concerned about the back of the CD cover, until we came across what we think and no is positive feedback. One reply said 'The back cover is amazing, not something you would put with Pendulum but the originality works perfectly to draw in people'. We think that this is very positive feedback as we said at the start of this project we want something different and original. Everyone gave positive feedback about the poster inside including how it is the perfect advert for people to go to one of their concerts as well as lesson to their music.

We had a lot of different responses to our questionnaire all positive, and we are great full for this response we have got.