Analysis of audience feedback

I think that through looking at my audience feedback that there are a variety of elements that went well and areas that I could have improved.

A repeatedly mentioned feature that was mentioned for working well was the choice of my stories-I do feel that I was able to use a variety of stories ranging in topics, age, and that were positive and negative which I found were all features of local papers.
I feel that this helped me to appeal to a wider audience and to challenge myself with a variety of writings.

It is also clear that through making some final last mintute adjustments I would have been able to improve the look of my piece and make it more appealing to my audience through checking the presentation and spelling of my work- I plan on next time when working on a similar product to ensure I leave myself enough time when creating and planning my product to check the overall finish so that it is more clear and consise.

Another element that was mentioned for working well on my product was the layout of my product. I tried to use elements of my style models I had read so that my paper had a similar feel to other local papers that my audience would buy.
It was however noted that the presentation and the layout of my paper was  crowded and needed to be tidied up in order to improve the finished look. I do agree with these comments as I think that through deducting the amount of small feature stories I would have been able to gain a more professional look through having more space to move around the existing articles.
I also feel that if I had more time I would have most definately been able to improve the finished look of my product and that I would be able to enhance the finished look to make it more professional looking and more appealing to the audience.

It was also noted that the area of my three pieces that let me down was my poster advertisment and that it was the weakest of them all.
I do agree with this comment. I was aware that the product was not as sophisticated and did not have as much time invested in it as my other peices, however through recieveing the feedback I know I would need to make vast improvments to the product so that the overall look of all my products is improved.

Overall I feel that through gathering my audience feedback it has allowed me to view my product in a different way and has therefore enabled me to see the areas that I did not initialy notice but that I could work on. It is also valued feedback to gain as they would be the people who purchase my product sop through having their feedback I gain knowledge in how to appeal to my aidneice, what to work on and how to improve my work for the future.
A key area that from gathering my feedback I would drastically try and improve is my poster as I feel that is what will drag the overall appearance of my products down and through making my poster more appealing to my audience I would be able to generate more positive feedback.

I do also feel that as my feedback was done in an anonomous manner, by a mixture of people who I do not know has really helped to validate the information and feedback I recieved as they are all honest and vallued points that need to be considered.
I feel that I am now more aware of how to improve my product for the future (the finished presentation, crowded layout) and that I know what elelemtns have worked well and that I should use again (story choices, language used, colour schemes).

Answers from the questions asked

1. The stories and the adverts
2. A positive view of young people
3. It has a strict colour scheme all the way through
4. adverts, local stories, coupons
5. The third page

1. Keeping residents up to date with our community
2. bringing them together as a community by information
3. using different fonts can sometimes look a bit too ‘busy’

1. Local people
2. Local people and local interest
3. Too bitty, not clear enough
4. The layout is to packed in
5. More diversity

1. The local stories
2. Clever, outgoing, sporty
3. positively
4. Layout
5. Style

1. Articles are relevant to the town and its people, the voucher for shop
2. Teens- vandals and dangerous (some good like bowls girl) Children- obese, Elderly- not much about them, may enjoy the voucher though
3. Red colour scheme commonly used, may represent a particular political party, the blue and yellow bit reminds me of other local papers, outline is professional but could be clearer
4. Offers, local stories, ‘lonely hearts’ feature
5. Sometimes there are spelling mistakes

   1.   Choice of stories

   2.   Children shown in good way

   3.   Similar layout

   4.   Articles are mixed (positive and negative)

   5.   Colour scheme could be more fluent throughout paper

   1.   The stories have a good content

   2.   Children are shown as good achievers

   3.   Has a similar layout but is a bit crowded

   4.   A good variety of stories

   5.   Could improve the amount fo stories used on paper as there are more than most papers (to many fature stories)

   1.  The stories are relevant to the town

   2.  Teenagers are dangerous

   3.  Apperance is like other local papers

   4.  Good mixture of stories

   5.  Need to improve the finished presentation of paper

   1.  Second page features collum is a good similarity to other papers

   2.  Mixed view

   3.  The title and the 'lonely hearts' features are relevant to the town and are nice features 

   4.  There are a variety of stories ranging from positive to negative

   5.  I think that there should be some final checks made to the finished presentation

   1.  similar layout

   2.  Kids=good

   3.  some stories are good

   4.  Variety of stories

   5.  Need to have more free space 

     

          

            
   

Evaluation questions for my product

1. What elements of my product appeal directly to my target audience?
2. What message do you think I’m trying to make with the representations of teenagers, children and the elderly?
3. In your opinion, how do you feel the layout of my paper represents others in the same market? This could be in reference to structure, fonts or colour schemes.
4. What conventions of local newspapers can you see reflected in my finished outcome?
5. What elements of my product do you feel I could improve on to enhance the quality of my product?

Movement - bowls pictures

From taking these photos it is clear that there are many improvements that I can make when taking action shots in the future, as the finished look of the photos I feel did affect the finished look and overall presentation of my paper as they looked unprofessional.
It was a real problem taking the photos as I wanted to encourperate my main story from the front page onto my second page as a carried on story as id seen in one of my style models 'The Evening Post' and to do this I needed to change the area and poeple in the shot and the way type of shot. To do this I went to a competition to get an action shot-but in doing this I encountered difficulties as I was not able to put the flash on during the match which effected the quality of my pictures.
To improve this next time I will try to plan a different environment to take the pictures to ensure I can use the camera to the best wuality I can and to get the best finished shot, I do feel however that through taking these pictures and encounting these difficulties I have learnt a great deal and which will benefit my future work.

Close up cover photo and second page school works photo

Edited picture for poster

Making the Lonely hearts 'ear'

I wanted to ensure that one of the elements on the ears of my paper would give an insight into what my paper contains. 

In order to do this I had to take a photo of a person on a bench, so that I would be able to crop out the background so it would be a clear picture that I could use to put in for the advertisement. 

I had to use the magic wand and lasso tool in order for me to create the clean finished look which i did that eliminated the background from the photo.

I do however feel that I could have improved the picture as there are still elements of the background visible through the holes on the bench which I found to hard to remove, so this would be an element that I would need to plan around in the future.