Evaluation

Q3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Having feeback from my audience and hearing their opinion on my work enables me to learn from mistakes and fidn ways of improving for a better result. Asking my audience may help me to realise issues, mistakes or ways of improving that I had not thought of myself.

As seen below in my blog, I asked a group of people of various age group a set of questions to find out their opinion on my newspaper, website and poster. The questions I asked were:
- What age group do you think my newspaper would be best suited for?
- What do you think about the layout of my newspaper?
- Would my poster catch your attention and make you want to buy the newspaper?
- What are your initial thoughts on the website?
- Do you think any of my texts could be improved on?

I am very pleased with the feeback I recieved on my newspaper. Generally people seemed to think the photographs were a good size, aspects of my paper were colourful, the headlines were big and bold and attracted attention, and the articles were a good size and not too long. This good feeback has made me see that my newspaper is appealing to the audience.

I also had quite positive feeback on my poster. Most people agreed it was eye catching and as it included on the poster what was inside the paper it would make people consider buying it if the features interested them. I am pleased with this feedback as the purpose of my poster is to advertise the newspaper and therefore encourage people to buy it.

The feedback on my website was quite negative. Everyone I asked agreed that my website could be improved upon. People thought it looked too much like a newspaper and could include something different rather than just being an online version of the paper. It was also said that it looked quite plain and simple. This negative feeback has helped me a lot. I have taken it as constructive criticism and it has helped me to see ways that I could improve my website. If I was to do the website again I would include different stories with photographs and features such as the local weather and jobs. I would also have a different layout rather than using columns as this makes it look just like a newspaper. Whereas, if the website was different it would encourage people to buy the newspaper and visit the website, rather than just visiting the website for free as it does not inclue anything different to the newspaper.