Audience Research Questionnaire

Ellen Ronan

1. How Often Do You Watch Documentaries?

13%

25%

32%

12%

18%

All The Time

Often

Sometimes

Rarely

Never

2. Which institution are you most likely to associate with documentaries?

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

BBC ITV Channel 4 Channel 5 MTV Sky

3. What is the name of your favouritedocumentary?

• Big Brother x4

• Catfish x3

• TOWIE x6

• Made In Chelsea x9

• Road Wars x2

• Educating Essex x7

• UK Border Force x1

• The X Factor x10

• Police Interceptors x2

• 16 & Pregnant x3

• Cribs x5

• Educating Yorkshire x8

• Obese: A Year To Save My Life x2

• America’s Next Top Model x4

• Sun, Sea and A&E x2

• Nothing to Declare x1

• Geordie Shore x9

• Educating Joey Essex x4

• 9/11 x2

• Countryfile x1

• Long Lost Families x4

• My Big Fat gypsy Wedding x11

• Planet Earth x3

• 24 hours in A&E x7

4. What institution is it made by?

4%

22%

38%

7%

18%

11%BBC ITV

Channel 4 Channel 5

MTV Sky

5. Approximately how many Documentaries have you watched this year?

Number of People Number of Documentaries

12 Less than 5

16 5-10

21 11-15

27 16-20

17 21-25

9 26-30

8 More Than 30

6. Which institution did you use most when watching them?

• 6%

BBC

• 10%

ITV

• 28%

Channel 4

• 20%

Channel 5

• 19%

MTV

• 17%

Sky

7. Tick three conventions that you find most useful in a documentary.

• Voiceovers

• Reenactment

• Interviews

• Exposition

• Facts & Statistics

• Montage

• Hidden Cameras

• Archival Footage

In order of most ticked to least ticked.

8. What would you most like to learn about through watching a documentary?

Crime

Teenagers

Education

Real Life Stories

Disasters

Life of a…

9. What is you favourite genre of documentary?

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Expostiory Observational Interactive Reflective

10. What editing technique do you most like in a documentary?

0%5%

10%15%20%25%30%35%

Music

Filters/Effects

Clip Editing/CrossCutting

Text Input