2. PROFESSIONAL
Throughout creating both ancillary products I have received feedback from both
my target audiences and my teachers. In many instances my teachers have
provided practical feedback which has allowed me to make my products more
professional looking. This feedback has included: changing my main image to
become more impacting and interesting to audiences, to change my font size to
be smaller, alignment of the information on my page to be better, to ensure the
release date for the “album” is a Friday, check that my advertising tag lines are
realistic and remove my album name from around my digipak. This feedback has
helped my work to become more conventional and realistic as these more
professional audiences are able to spot faults less common to my target audience.
This has been particularly helpful in areas such as having my album name in too
many places on my digipak, here I had overcrowded the design and found the
constructive feedback helpful to improve upon as understood how this could look
bombarding to audiences. Aligning the features on my magazine advert properly
has been another area where professional feedback has been highly influential; I
had been struggling with where to place the record label logo as I felt it looked
out of place in many areas on the page. Due to my research I knew it was vital,
as a key convention, to have to logo somewhere on the page and with my
teacher’s suggestion of moving this to either the bottom left or right corners or
bottom middle, I was able to find a position that I felt worked. From this feedback
I was able to place my logo in the bottom right-hand corner, which was far
improved from the original placement of right next to my text. I have followed all
professional feedback I have been given as I value and understand each point
and suggested improvement, aiding my ancillary texts to become more
professional.
3. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
For my ancillary texts I have used my audience feedback to aide me more
visually and design wise for my products. While my target audience may not
be able to spot more specific conventional issues they can identify what they
do and don’t like about my products. For both my draft and final products my
target audience liked and appreciated the main image of the cars which
encouraged me to continue to follow this theme. The main image was one of
the most commented on aspects of my work, highlighting to me how a great
majority of my target audience understand the effect and design I was
following. My target audience also suggested having my artist feature on my
digipak; by following this advice I was able to create a product that not only
hopefully promotes my artist but also appeals to my target audience and
market. The target audience also understood and believed my colour scheme
worked effectively; they followed how this linked across all products and how
this promoted and linked to my artist. Overall, my target audience has been
influential in my ancillary products by which photos/images they preferred
and what they believed worked well such as including an image of my artist. I
have not ignored any feedback from my target audience for my ancillary
products as I have fully understood and agreed with each point, seeing how
this will improve my products and allow my products to appeal more to them.
