QUESTION 3 By Rosanna Todd

Monday, 25 February 13

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.

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Television Documentary

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1) Did you think that the narration was relevant and to the point?

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2) Did you feel that the opening of the documentary caught your attention?

1) For question one 18 people answered yes. This shows that our narration was successful in the way it was presented to the audience.

2) For this question 17 people answered yes and one person answered

no. This told us that the first 40 seconds or so of the documentary

were effective in capturing the target audience’s attention and we

considered this very positive feedback.

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Television Documentary

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3) Did you think that the choice of background music suited the style of the documentary?

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4) Is the documentary edited in a coherent way?

3) For this question 16 people answered yes and 2 people answered no. These results

show that the majority of our target audience thought that our background music suited the style of documentary

which as a group, we were pleased with.

4) Again for this question we collected positive

feedback

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5) Is audio managed well throughout the documentary?

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6) Did you think that the documentary was well structured?

Television Documentary

5) For this question 9 people answered yes and 9 people answered no. If we had the chance to

make the documentary again we would definitely ensure that the audio/sound levels were equal throughout as some parts were

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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7) Was there anything else that could have been included in the documentary? If so, Why?

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Television Documentary

8) Did the documentary follow codes and conventions of existing documentaries that you

have already seen?

7) For this question the people who answered “yes” stated that more images and facts could have been included and

also maybe the presenter’s opinion could have been stated.

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Television Documentary8) What did you feel was the strongest part of the documentary?

“Good use of editing and

establishing shots”

“Interviews and facts”

“The variety of shots used”“Performative

element- Rosanna presenting”

“The opening”

“The editing”

“All the background images supported the

speech”

“The starting montage of

images”

“Interview with police”

“What the narrator says”

“Framing of shots”

“Interviews”

“Interesting shots, great interviews”

“Intro and music”

“The use of the presenter”

“The police interview, good information”

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Magazine Double-page Spread

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2) Do you think the information in the article was relevant to the documentary?

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1) Do you think that the colours used are suitable for the chosen genre of documentary?

1) We asked this question so that we could find out whether the colour

scheme made the double-page spread look realistic or not

2) Many people selected “no answer” for this question because they did not all get a chance to read it, however we can conclude

a positive response from our results for those who did read it.

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Magazine Double-page Spread

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3) After reading the article would you want you want to watch the documentary?

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4) Do you think the images were suitable in relation to the documentary?

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5) Do you think that the page layout looked realistic and similar to existing double page

spreads?5) The results from this question did surprise

me a little as I thought that it looked very realistic. However, if we had a chance to

improve our double-page spread we would ensure that it would look more realistic and similar to existing double page spreads by following the codes and conventions more

closely.

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Radio Trailer

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1) Do you think the background music is suitable?

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2) Can the narration be heard clearly?

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3) Is the narration straight to the point but delivers information accurately?

From our results, we can see that the narration was not the problem

with the audio levels but that in certain parts the audio was not level

with other parts of the documentary.

1) I was surprised that 5 people answered “no” for this question as

I thought that the background music was one of the strongest

parts of our documentary. However, maybe this is

something we could look back on and improve if we had a chance

to.

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4) Is the radio trailer long enough?

Radio Trailer

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5) Do you think that the radio trailer is effective in advertising the documentary?- Does it make you want to watch the documentary?

Overall we were happy with the feedback that we

received about the radio trailer

These results were encouraging for us as we received many positive responses from our

target audience.

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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.

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