Evaluation Three: Audience Feedback

We showed our documentary to four random individuals to get their thoughts on how they thought our ideas and conventions used were the same to documentaries they have seen, what they liked about our documentary and what they thought needed improvement.

From the audience feedback I was able to gain an understanding of what my strengths, weaknesses and about the clear connotations that is involved within the documentary. The fact that our documentary wasn’t biased and dealt with issues faced in society today seemed to be a highlight within the production as one of the viewers quoted ‘its not too perjudgice so people would want to watch it.' which is strength as we are able to target a wide range of audience. I received constructive criticism on what needed improvement such as the cutaways, it was suggested that more cutaways relating to the interviewees were needed, so the views can have a brighter incite to the life of the pregnant teen. The interviews used were also one of the strengths as we had different variety of people that represented society and their views on the topic were equally important.

The use of our voice over was specifically enjoyed, as it was a clear generic convention used like one of a professional documentary, the voice over was clear, well spoken and engaging for the audience to be intact with the message being delivered. The title of our documentary was also brought to the attention of the audience as what we were trying to convey to the audience was clear to them, one stated how they ‘literally are babies’.

In conclusion the audience feedback showed us what needed improving and how we have used our knowledge about documentary codes and conventions and used it effectively, as we have made our documentary close to many other documentaries. They all seemed to really enjoy our product and seemed to what to have more knowledge on the subject matter, though our documentary could do with a lot of improvements i feel that it went well as the audience understood our aim.