1. QUESTION 3
By Rosanna Todd
Monday, 25 February 13
2. What have you learned from your
audience feedback?
When researching into and planning our documentary we found that carrying out
questionnaires was a useful and easy way to find out more about our target
audience.
From these questionnaires we were able to find out what our target audience would
expect from a documentary (e.g. expert interviews, voiceover/narration, facts, vox
pops and music) and whether or not they would be interested in watching a
documentary on ‘Twitter’.
Our feedback was overall very positive. As these questionnaires were such a success
in the research/planning stages, we decided to conduct more to be able to collect
and analyse the feedback from our documentary, double-page spread and radio
trailer.
We asked 18 16-18 year olds their opinion on our products and the results are
analysed as followed.
Monday, 25 February 13
3. Television Documentary
2) For this question 17 people
1) Did you think that the narration was relevant and to the point?
answered yes and one person answered
no. This told us that the first 40
20
seconds or so of the documentary
15 were effective in capturing the target
10
audience’s attention and we
5
considered this very positive feedback.
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Yes
No 2) Did you feel that the opening of the documentary caught your attention?
No answer
20
15
1) For question one 18 people
10
answered yes. This shows that our
narration was successful in the way 5
0
it was presented to the audience.
Yes
No
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4. Television Documentary
3) Did you think that the choice of background music suited the style of the documentary?
20 4) Again for this question
15 we collected positive
feedback
10
5
4) Is the documentary edited in a coherent way?
0
yes
no
20
15
3) For this question 16 people answered yes
10
and 2 people answered no. These results
5
show that the majority of our target
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audience thought that our background
music suited the style of documentary Yes
No
which as a group, we were pleased with.
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5. Television Documentary
5) Is audio managed well throughout the documentary?
9
7
5
2
6) Did you think that the documentary was well structured?
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Yes
20
No
15
5) For this question 9 people answered yes and 9 10
people answered no. If we had the chance to 5
make the documentary again we would 0
definitely ensure that the audio/sound levels
Yes
were equal throughout as some parts were
No
louder than others. However the narration could
always be heard over the background music
which was a positive and maybe why half of our
audience answered “yes”.
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6. Television Documentary
7) Was there anything else that could have been included in the documentary? If so, Why?
15
11
8
4
8) Did the documentary follow codes and
conventions of existing documentaries that you
0 have already seen?
Yes
No 20
15
7) For this question the people who
10
answered “yes” stated that more images
5
and facts could have been included and
also maybe the presenter’s opinion could 0
have been stated. Yes
No
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7. Television Documentary
8) What did you feel was the strongest part of the documentary?
“Interviews and facts”
“Good use of “The opening” “Framing of shots”
editing and
establishing shots” “Interview with police”
“The starting “All the background
montage of images supported the “The use of the presenter”
images” speech”
“Interviews”
“Intro and music”
“The police interview, “The variety of shots
“Performative good information” used”
element- Rosanna
presenting”
“Interesting shots, “The editing”
“What the narrator says” great interviews”
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8. Magazine Double-page Spread
1) Do you think that the colours used are suitable for the chosen genre of documentary?
20
15 2) Many people selected “no answer” for
10 this question because they did not all get a
5
chance to read it, however we can conclude
a positive response from our results for
0
yes
those who did read it.
no
no answer
2) Do you think the information in the article was relevant to the documentary?
15
1) We asked this question so that we 11
could find out whether the colour 8
scheme made the double-page 4
spread look realistic or not
0
yes
no
no answer
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9. Magazine Double-page Spread
3) After reading the article would you want you want to watch the documentary?
15
4) Do you think the images were suitable in relation to the documentary?
11
8
15
4
11
0
8
yes
no
no answer 4
0
yes
no
5) Do you think that the page layout looked no answer
realistic and similar to existing double page
spreads?
10 5) The results from this question did surprise
me a little as I thought that it looked very
8
realistic. However, if we had a chance to
5
improve our double-page spread we would
3 ensure that it would look more realistic and
0 similar to existing double page spreads by
yes following the codes and conventions more
no
no answer closely.
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10. Radio Trailer
1) Do you think the background music is suitable?
15
1) I was surprised that 5 people 2) Can the narration be heard clearly?
11 answered “no” for this question as
I thought that the background
8 music was one of the strongest 20
4
parts of our documentary.
15
However, maybe this is
0 something we could look back on 10
yes and improve if we had a chance
no to. 5
no answer
0
yes
no
no answer
3) Is the narration straight to the point but delivers
information accurately?
15
From our results, we can see that
11 the narration was not the problem
8
with the audio levels but that in
4
certain parts the audio was not level
with other parts of the
0
documentary.
yes
no
no answer
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11. Radio Trailer
4) Is the radio trailer long enough?
20
These results were encouraging
for us as we received many
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positive responses from our
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target audience.
5
0 5) Do you think that the radio trailer is effective in advertising the documentary?-
Does it make you want to watch the documentary?
Yes
No
no answer
15
11
Overall we were happy with
8
the feedback that we 4
received about the radio 0
trailer Yes
No
no answer
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12. Conclusion
Overall we were satisfied with the audience feedback
that we collected and now know the improvements
that could be made to all 3 products. We found the
feedback to be mainly positive and this encouraged us
greatly.
The feedback was also what we expected to hear.
The main improvement that could be made to the
documentary is fixing the audio levels to make them
sound equal from clip to clip.
Monday, 25 February 13