Final Reflection

The good thing about an online show is it's availablity, you can watch it whenever and wherever you are, thats the beauty of the internet and technology you can now watch videos on youtube from your iPods or you iPhones or your regular phones. From your games consoles, anything with video, audio and internet capabilties. That is how online shows differ from theatre and TV it's ready available for you to watch when you want. TV shows have now started to be put onto the internet to watch if you missed an episode etc but they're not all doing that yet. And people do upload recordings of being at a theatre onto youtube, but the quality just isn't as good as being there.

Because our show is online, we decided that we would market online. Instead of the traditional posters or leaflets or just gathering up people and telling them about it. Or using the method that TV does which is to have adverts, ok we couldn't have done that due to the fact we don't have the contacts or money but if we were in that area of business that is what we would have done. Instead we created groups/profiles on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Once we created these pages we would then send invitations or links to our friends to gather up some population. Once our friends were connected to these pages, we would then publish comments about how our project is going or images and vidoes of everything. We would then put up links to our episodes on these pages. This is how we would get our viewers, through social networking sites. We did actualy put up a few posters around our college, we don't know if this gave us any audience or not.

Within the space of two weeks our first episode got 803 views which I think is quite alot actually, maybe we needed to add more tags to it for it to pop up in more common searches. So far for it we have gotten 15 comments on youtube, some are saying that they think it is good, others are saying what needs to be improved upon. We had recieved a very good piece of feedback from a website called Facepunch, this site is full of forums on all sorts of comments a guy in our group decided to open up a thread on that website. Some of the comments we recieved were irrelevant but we did recieve a few good meaty bits of feedback which were very useful to us. On our second episode we had recieved 300 views in just over a week and received 5 comments from the public on this. Our third episode got the most views (by views to time comparison) it has gotten 232 views in 6 days, and has recieved 4 comments.

The good thing about our webshow is we are able to receive feedback whilst we still are in the planning stage for the enxt episode, so anything we have been told that could be improved or change we have some time to reflect on it, like when we were told our script made no sense or wasn't as funny, were were able to quickly act on it and get a different person to try with the scripting. After being noted on our editing we were able to act on that and make sure we spend some more time on it and watch it through time and time again so we can check for things, little details we missed or continuity errors