Evaluation: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The audience feedback that we recieved on our radio drama was fairly positive and quite high. We gained an average of 7/8 out of 10 on 'Under the Mushroom Cloud'. The majority of the comments were very successful and overall we are very pleased with the outcome. People very much liked the narrative, with the massive twist at the end, this seemed to entice listeners and they wanted to know more. We were also complimented on our choice of genre as sci-fi and post apocolyptic themes are very popular when it comes to television and movies but are somewhat missed when considered for radio dramas.

There were a few minor faults with our drama, but these were justified and in the final processes we decided not to change anything. We were criticised on Nick's Scottish accent, saying that it was an unintentional comedy element, however we felt that we wanted to portray his accent in a very loud, brash and over-the-top way as this was to reflect his character. Another criticism was the acting quality, however we felt in a real situation we would be able to have real actors and actresses to bring our script to life and up the quality massively.

The feedback for my poster was generally positive. The feedback felt that the poster campaign reflected the drama very well and audiences would be enticed to learn more just from the poster. I was also complimented on my photography skills and that the colour scheme and theme were very sophisticated and that of a high quality. However, audiences felt that perhaps the use of photoshop skills were maybe a little bit amateur. I agree with this as my Photoshop skills are not perfect and I tried as hard as I can and learnt alot more about photoshop for this task than I have ever learnt before.

My double page spread was also recieved very well. The comments I recieved were very positive and a couple of people even suggested that it wouldn't look out of place in a real magazine! I feel that my writing itself was that of a high quality. From my audience feedback, I also learnt that the photographs complimented the double page spread very well and the links were very clear from that of the ancillary task 1.

Overall I have learnt that perhaps I could improve on my skills, technology wise, such as InDesign and Photoshop, and this would make my work look much more professional. However my creative process and ideas were very well recieved.