3) What have you learned from your
audience feedback? TV Listing
The fact that no one said it did
definitely look unprofessional
means that it did. However two
people did say they were
unsure, which means that it
wasn't completely professional
like we hoped it would be. The
general consensus of this
question is positive though.
This question addressed
whether it could be imagined
to be in a TV magazine.
Unfortunately almost 40% of
people said no. This may be
because its slightly less
conventional than most
magazines. However there
was a good response of 5
people saying they could
imagine it. Overall this was a
bit of a weak area in terms of
the magazine production.
This questioned whether the colour
scheme was striking enough for the
magazine. The average outcome was
around 3 out of 5 which was "Quite
striking". This was quite a good result
and I feel like the colours used were
very bold and added a very good effect.
The lowest rating was "slightly" which
obvioulsy isn't what we wanted.
Perhaps the colours were too bright?
This showed a mixed reaction to the
product as some people said they would
watch the documentary but others said
no. However the most common
response was possibly which shows that
there is an element of interest there but
perhaps they wouldn't actually watch
the documentary anyway regardless of
what the double page spread was like.
This, in hindsight, should've been
specified before the questions were
asked.
Overall the actual effectiveness
of the headline was given almost
a 4/5 which was very good. I think
that the headline itself could've
been more catchy but I'm glad
that in general it got a good
response. The headline may have
worked even better if it was
shorter or had a rhetorical
feature as opposed to just a play
on words.
Only one out of the whole selection of
responses said that the article wasnt
interesting. I think this is because as well as
having facts and statistics, there was
elements of the documentary used and
quotes from famous people related to the
topic. I think the article was well written and
I'm glad it had a good response. Perhaps the
one person who didnt find it interesting
wasn't actually interested in the whole idea
anyway.
In terms of elements of the magazine
that they liked, the mentioned features
were the structure to the page, the text
boxes and the photos, specifically the
film strip at the bottom of the page.
These were all helpful to know our
strengths in terms of the design and
things that the target audience found
appealing.
Improvements mentioned were the colour
scheme. The colour yellow didnt seem to have a
good response as it was said to be "too vibrant"
and that it needs a darker colour to fit to the
theme. I agree with the fact that the colour
wasn't necessarily fitting to the theme that we
had chosen and maybe a red or orange may
have worked better. The general feedback also
mentioned how it should look more like a real
magazine listing meaning that it looks like it
was made by a student. Using the other
feedback I think we could've worked on this to
make it look more professional and fitting to a
real TV magazine.