B2 Gather feedback

B2 Gather feedback – how have you received feedback?  

Responding to feedback  

I have received quite a sum of peer feedback about my blog, my singing and my overall attitude to music. Whilst most of this feedback was positive, peers mentioning how my singing has improved, how I have gained more confidence and how I've added more information to my blog that is useful, I have found that the constructive feedback, being the things that I need to change, has helped me more. This feedback consists of peers letting me know that I need to add more posts to my blog and use correct punctuation in it, furthermore I also have been told I need to make sure that I need to spell check my blogs before uploading, all this feedback will help me in the future and has helped me realise what needs to be changed to create a flawless blog post.  

 

My teacher Steve has given me quite a lot of frequent feedback to aid and help me build the music career I wish, a few main pieces I have received is:  

 

Blogger: Steve mentioned that I need to change my font of my blog posts as it could be difficult to read, as Steve is dyslexic, he told me from personal experience that he struggles to read my posts, the font I used to use was called pacific and it was in a very cursive design.  With this information I then went on to my blogger and changed the font, there is an issue with my blogger now where, even though I have changed the font, the preview is still in the old font, but Steve and I are trying to figure out why this is so. If I did not get this feedback I wouldn`t have realised that my font was difficult to read and quite discriminative to people with conditions such as dyslexia. 

 

Social media: Steve also asked me where I am with my social media, I mentioned that I have a thousand followers, but I don’t take my social media profoundly serious and don’t post regularly, just when I feel like this. The feedback I received from this conversation was that I should start to take it more seriously and investigate scheduling posts, in which he introduced me to business suite on Facebook where you can schedule posts and keep on top of your social media in a less stressful way. If I did not get this feedback, I feel as though I would have fallen behind with posts and been very unaware of how scheduled posts can build your career and reach a target audience. 

 

Bogger 2.0: it was briefly mentioned in our feedback session that I need to add more posts to my blog, Steve mentioned that by adding more blog posts may create more engagement and consistency. Since receiving this feedback, I have managed to write in my planner weekly post ideas of an artist that inspires me or an artist I enjoy listening to and a cover of one of their songs. I have written that I need to be more detailed in my posts As well so that as I consistently post they will all be to the same outstanding standard. If I did not get this feedback I would not have thought to frequently add posts to my blog, I currently have not added any new ones as I am planning them all and dating them as of when I am uploading them, which will be when I have finished my plan. 

 

As well as individual feedback we have also engaged in countless group discussions, one was in the studio when I received the feedback that it would be helpful to me if I learnt how to fly the desk (just the basic knowledge) and how to rig up my own microphone. I have worked on this by going to see Jason Reeve, our creating music teacher and course coordinator, and asking him to show me that basics of the studio and how to set up a mic with ease, this has helped me a lot as I confidently recorded my own singing and backing instrumental for a cover I'm working to realise. I will upload this to my blog once complete, I am also documenting how I've done it and how I've found working independently in the studio. The feedback I received in the studio encouraged me to work in their independently. If I did not get this feedback I wouldn’t have had the courage to have gone into the studio independently and work on making a new cover track with the knowledge that I actually do know, to an extent, what i`m doing, I think I just convinced myself I didn’t, which is why I hadn’t gone in on my own beforehand.