Questionnaire Results

Níamh Reilly

GenderThe majority of people we interviewedwere male. However it was only 60% ,out of the 60 participants 36 weremale and 24 were female; becausethese were rather close we cangeneralise results to the population. Asa group we tried to make sure we hadenough participants who were bothmale and female so we could gainrepresentational data. We decidedfrom this data that we would aim ourdocumentary at a male and femaleaudience in order to obtain a widerviewership for our documentary.

AgeWe gained questionnaire results from arange of participants from different ages.The majority of people we interviewedhowever were students between 16 -19.We decided that we would aim ourdocumentary at 16 – 19 year olds due tothe fact we had most of their opinions.The next biggest per cent of people were20 – 25 year olds which have similar viewsto students, of some of which are stillstudents and can relate and notice thesame things students do. The wide rangeof age of participants meant that ourquestionnaire was representational to thegeneral public.

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We questioned many different peoplefrom across Birmingham to gainknowledge from people from differenteconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Thismeant that our results led to ageneralised target audience and to findthings in common with these people.

Do you watch documentaries?

Due to us conducting ourinterview face to face we wereable to tell participants thatdocumentaries included shoeslike ‘Big Brother’ and ‘TOWIE’.Because of this a lot of theparticipants stated theywatched documentaries whichwas positive for ourquestionnaire as we could askfurther questions to improveour knowledge of who to aimour documentary towards.

How often do you watch documentaries?

Many people said they onlywatched documentaries oncea week, when asked why wefound that is was becausethey’re favourite ones orkinds were only on oneweekly these documentariesincluded the likes of ‘Made inChealsa’ ‘TOWIE’ and ‘HoneyBooBoo’.

What genre of documentaries do you watch?

Within our questionnaire webriefly explained the definitionof each type of documentary inlayman's terms. After gainingthe knowledge of each typethe majority of people saidthey watched participatorydocumentaries which is wherethe film-maker is activelyengaging with the audience,asking questions and sharingexperiences with them. Wecould use this model ofdocumentary through ourdocumentary by having an onscreen presenter.

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What time do you watch the documentaries?

The majority of documentariesare watched during the nighttime after the water shed, thissuggest to us that we wouldaim our documentary atviewers no younger thanstudents.

What topics would you be interested in watching a documentary about?

For this question we asked people a qualitative question where they wrote theirown answers. We did this as not to lead the participant on to our preferred topic,the same general answers came up with each participant slightly differing howeverhealth was a consistent answer and we thought about using this topic as the basisfor our documentary.

Would you be interested in…

We then asked participantswhat topic they’d be mostinterested in if they had to pickout of select three we hadchosen, we found that justunder 50% would choosehealth which settled our ideaof using health as the topic forour documentary.