Questionnaire Results

GenderThe majority of people we interviewed were male. However it was only 60% , out of the 60 participants 36 were male and 24 were female; because these were rather close we can generalise results to the population. As a group we tried to make sure we had enough participants who were both male and female so we could gain representational data. We decided from this data that we would aim our documentary at a male and female audience in order to obtain a wider viewership for our documentary.

AgeWe gained questionnaire results from a range of participants from different ages. The majority of people we interviewed however were students between 16 -19. We decided that we would aim our documentary at 16 – 19 year olds due to the fact we had most of their opinions. The next biggest per cent of people were 20 – 25 year olds which have similar views to students, of some of which are still students and can relate and notice the same things students do. The wide range of age of participants meant that our questionnaire was representational to the general public.

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We questioned many different people from across Birmingham to gain knowledge from people from different economic and ethnic backgrounds. This meant that our results led to a generalised target audience and to find things in common with these people.

Do you watch documentaries?Due to us conducting our interview face to face we were able to tell participants that documentaries included shoes like ‘Big Brother’ and ‘TOWIE’. Because of this a lot of the participants stated they watched documentaries which was positive for our questionnaire as we could ask further questions to improve our knowledge of who to aim our documentary towards.

How often do you watch documentaries?

Many people said they only watched documentaries once a week, when asked why we found that is was because they’re favourite ones or kinds were only on one weekly these documentaries included the likes of ‘Made in Chealsa’ ‘TOWIE’ and ‘Honey BooBoo’.

What genre of documentaries do you watch?

Within our questionnaire we briefly explained the definition of each type of documentary in layman's terms. After gaining the knowledge of each type the majority of people said they watched participatory documentaries which is where the film-maker is actively engaging with the audience, asking questions and sharing experiences with them. We could use this model of documentary through our documentary by having an on screen presenter.

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What time do you watch the documentaries?

The majority of documentaries are watched during the night time after the water shed, this suggest to us that we would aim our documentary at viewers no younger than students.

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

For this question we asked people a qualitative question where they wrote their own 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 however health was a consistent answer and we thought about using this topic as the basis for our documentary.

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We then asked participants what topic they’d be most interested in if they had to pick out of select three we had chosen, we found that just under 50% would choose health which settled our idea of using health as the topic for our documentary.