EVALUATION 3-DOCUMENTARY-RADIO TRAILER-PRINT ADVERT

By Samuel Nolan

.DOCUMENTARY.

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By watching the first 5 minutes of our documentary, do you think it is interesting and would continue watching the rest, why?

The audience said that our documentary provides a good amount of information and it gives and more insight on peoples opinions on healthy eating.

-Our sample size for our questionnaire was a group of 12 people.

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND OUR DOCUMENTARY TO SOMEONE ELSE?

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11 out of 12 of the people in our sample size answered YES to recommending out documentary to someone else, no further reason why. 1 of the positive quotes complimented us on how realistically we presented our information, stating that they would watch the rest of the documentary based on how the beginning went:-”Yes, if the rest of the documentary was informative and realistic”

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DO YOU THINK OUR DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWS THE CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTARY?

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All 12 people from our sample size said yes to our documentary following the codes and conventions of a professional documentary.

DO YOU THINK THE VOICE OVER REPRESENTS THE DOCUMENTARY?

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11 out of the 12 people who answered our questionnaire said yes to our voice over representing our documentary.

The remaining 1 person outOf the 12 that answered saidno

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ON A SCALE OF 1-5 (1 BEING THE LEAST, 5 BEING THE MOST) PLEASE RATE THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS OF OUR DOCUMENTARY.

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A lot of the people who answered our questionnaire were pleased with the documentary, most of the audience voted 4’s and 5’s for each aspect of our documentary.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS ARE TO OUR DOCUMENTARY?

This question enabled the audience to voice their own opinion and say what thought was positive and negative about our documentary aspects.

Positive Negative Provides good information and also entertaining Clips aren't interesting

All three products link effectively Mise-en-scene in the documentary is relevant.

Archive material distracting over interviews

Very well structured Professional Good Mise-en-scene

Seen as quite dull

Topic, Themes, Ideas Interviews Cutaways

Editing could be slightly better in some shots

Interviews went well Vox pops had a good Mise-en-scene

Voiceover could be a bit more lively

Opening sequence is really good Title sequence is a bit basic

Good editing One interview is too long

Good Mise-en-scene Camerawork is a bit occasionally dodgy

ON A SCALE OF 1-5 (1 BEING THE LEAST, 5 BEING THE MOST) PLEASE RATE THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS OF OUR DOCUMENTARY:

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• According to our audience the documentary was good and it used good cutaways and interviews that were relevant to the theme of our documentary following with well chosen mise-en scene and a strong opening title sequence. However the audience didn’t feel certain parts were as good and could have been better such as the archive footage.

.RADIO TRAILER.

BY LISTENING TO THE RADIO ADVERT, WOULD THIS MAKE YOU WANT TO WATCH OUR DOCUMENTARY?

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Most of our audience said they would watchour documentary afterlistening to our radiotrailer.

• From our survey of our Radio Trailer, the audience said that generally our script could have been improved to help it link better with our Documentary and Print Advert.

.PRINT ADVERT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF OUR PRINT AD IS?

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Channel4 logo is positioned very well Graphics don’t look very professional

Good main images Bad graphics and changing the channel4 logo would look better

Good themes and ideas shown Doesn’t look completely professional

Slogan is good Graphics features

It looks professional Better background

For this question we asked all of our audience what they thought was good and bad about our print advertisement, these a the answers they gave.

• Overall our audience who answered our questionnaire thought that the whole idea of our Print advert was well thought out and used a good theme, although they felt some of graphic features and images used weren’t as good.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACKWe uploaded our documentary to YouTube for the audience to watch and give constructive criticism.

Following this I also interviewed one of the people in our audience who watched the documentary. I asked her a couple of questions just to give a better perspective of how someone finds our documentary.