Evaluation: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

After creating my products I showed them to friends and also other people I knew that were also doing media for some feedback. Most people had a positive response to my products, in particular my poster however, I asked them to be honest and give me any critical feedback and a few common points were made. The first point was that my website felt flat compared to the real ones. I agreed with this but I put it done to the software that was used to create it as well as the size of the website I made is much smaller in comparison to real websites. Another common comment was the fact that the dates on my websites and newspaper don’t match up which they would have usually. This was a mistake on my part as I had put the wrong date on my website when I created it. People also said that he picture of the members of the news team that created the newspaper, as well as the list of the top 10 chart positions are too large and take up too much space than they would normally. The picture couldn’t be made smaller without losing a large amount of quality however the chart could have been made smaller and would have given me more space to add other things on the page. As a result I was given feedback that the inside page seems less authentic then the rest of the paper.
I was also given some positive feedback however as many of the people who looked at them felt that my poster was very good and looked like a real poster. They also felt that the story on my newspaper and website sounded very similar to real stories in the way it was written. Also I was told that even though my website looked flat the layout of it was very realistic.