After completing our final Thriller opening product the first and most important thing we had to do was put it on worldwide website YouTube. We did decided to post it on YouTube instead of other online video websites as generally it is the most popular and YouTube is the first place younger people (our target audience) go to watch videos.
Posting our video online would benefit our product in various different ways. It would allow us to recieve immediate feedback off our viewers so we could find out what people thought about it and whether there were any ways they thought it could of been improved if we chose to repeat and make the thriller opening again. After the video was posted, we asked our family and friends to watch the video and give us some feedback on the positives and negatives of our thriller opening film. Here is an example of the feedback recieved from our audience:
As a whole we were very pleased with the feedback recieved. As well as many positive comments we were also able to take on board the comments offering ways the thriller opening could potentially be improved. It also highlighted the ways in which we achieved our product aim and how things we may needed to add to it in order to do this.
Other tools on YouTube that we used to gather feedback and opinions from our audience was the 'like/dislike bar' just below the video. If a member of the public enjoyed the video but didn't have time to comment they could simply press the like button, alternatively if they didn't like it, they could press the dislike button. This bar has become very important on YouTube as people use it before clicking on a video. If the bar is mainly green, it suggests that the video is 'legit' and generally good, but if the majority is red, it may prevent people watching the video and people could be let away from it.
Here is our 'like/dislike bar'. As you can see only one person has currently 'liked' it but the bar is 100% green which could attract potential viewers to watch the video.