Evaluation Activity 5

The way we decided to attract our audience for our opening sequence for 'Dolls' was by uploading the short video on Youtube. Youtube is the dominant provider of online video which seems like the best way to let everyone know about it. Youtube is very easy to use as all you have to do is make an Youtube account (which is free) and then you can upload videos and decide how you want people to find them.

We gave our video a very simple name so that it could be easily found which was 'DOLLS AS Opening Sequence'. By giving it a complex name just means that you would get less views on your video because not many people would be able to find it. 

Youtube has a description box which allows you to add a description about your video so that your video is easier to find as you can explain what your video is. It also has a feature in which you can add tags to your video so when someone searches something that is included in your tags, your video will come up in their search. Here you can see we have added some tags like a-level, opening sequence, thriller etc. Another way of getting many views would be by linking a very well-known thriller/psychological horror like Se7en to our video.

When you do upload a video on Youtube, you can decide whether you would like everyone to be able to view your videos or just certain people who either have the link or are subscribed to you. By making it private, you are setting a restriction to the public from watching your video so we decided not to do this and just let it be viewed publicly. By doing this, we are letting our video go international and this means we can get a variety of feedback if seen from people all around the world. 

Comment voting is another feature which helps maximise your hits as if your video has many likes then people will see this and want to watch your video because they would want to know what it contains that people are liking it. You can even set your comments to whether or not you would like everyone to see them or not however if you do set this to not being able to receive comments, then you will lose out on feedback which will not help you knowing what needed improving on your video. People can also rate your video out of a star rating of 5 which helps with feedback.

Youtube offers many different options in order for your video to be seen at any time and place for example, embedding. This gives external websites your permission to allow your video to go up on their website so that it may be viewed by many more people who may come across that website. There is also syndication which is where your video can be viewed on a mobile device. 

We also spread the link on Facebook to each of our friends so that our video could be viewed.

Another way of promoting our video was through Twitter. We each tweeted the link and asked our followers to retweet it so we could get more views.