What did you learn from your audience feedback?

As an element of the production of our radio drama, we learnt that we would be recieving audience feedback. During this, all of the groups in our class presented their radio dramas, during this participants wrote anonomously on a sheet, stating what could be improved within the radio dramas.

We learnt from our audience feedback that our characters were not developed enough and that people found it hard to relate to the characters Ethan and Elisa, as the decision they were making about uni was not strong enough. In order to do this, we realised that we would have to explore the characters Elisa and Ethan again. To fully explore the characters, we decided to create a "Character development" This involved what we thought the characters would be like both emotionally and towards other people. In doing this, we really began to learn our characters personalities, and this way we could all join together in creating characters that we all agreed would be relevant. (I will include images of these development diagrams at the end of this post.)

Another issue that was raised during audience feedback was the problem that we found with the amount of white noise in the background of our radio drama, we knew that this would possibly make our sound clips unusable. Due to this not being reparable, we decided that the best thing to do would be to re-record our radio drama, this way our radio drama would seem more proffessionable and would hopefully help the audience relate to our radio drama, and make it seem more realistic. (I will include a soundclip of our older radio drama which we recorded, so that you can see for yourself the extent of white noise.)

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The final issue that was pointed out to us during audience feedback was that the storyline of Elisa not being able to chose which uni to go to was not a strong enough point to base our radio drama on. After deep discussion within our group, we decided that we would rewrite our script, and include another major issue that would easily make our radio drama more realistic and also entertaining. As we were going to re-record our radio drama, this was quite a convenient issue that was raised, and i feel that re-recording our radio drama was the correct thing to do to improve our radio drama, and make our targeted audience much more interested and to make it easier to relate to.

Over all I have learnt that in order to make our radio drama the best, audience feedback was the best thing for it, as before we received our audience feedback, we didnt realise that any of the issues raised were a big problem. As the audience that were giving the feedback were around the age of our targeted audience, this also made it a valued point of view which we really used to our full advantage.


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