Friday, October 15, 2010
Target Audience Research: Questionnaire Results
Questionnaire results
1. Gender
Conclusion
3. What is your favourite colour?
Conclusion
Conclusion
Conclusion
Conclusion
The majority of people we asked to complete our questionnaire said that their favourite comedian is Lee Evans with both Russell Howard and Jason Manford being the second and third most popular. These results suggest that it would appeal to our target audience to feature these comedians in our documentary.
This result shows that the majority of people we surveyed do not usually attend comedy events.
This graph shows that the majority of people who said yes to going to comedy events attend the Edinburgh comedy festival. This shows that if we include footage of the festival in our documentary it would appeal to our target audience.
The majority of people who answered our questionnaire told us that what make them laugh most is jokes. This lets us know that to appeal to the target audience we should include jokes in our documentary.
1. Gender
Conclusion
The majority of people who answered the questionnaire were female.
2. Age
Conclusion
The majority of people who filled in the questionnaire were aged 16-20. This means that the documentary will be aimed at this age group. It will also require us to schedule the documentary on a channel and time that will attract the target audience.
3. What is your favourite colour?
Conclusion
The results show that blue, pink, purple and orange are all high scoring colours. This will help us when choosing colours to used during the documentary for example title colour, in order to attract our target audience.
4. What TV channel do you watch most?
Conclusion
The majority of people who filled in the questionnaire said that they watched the channel E4 or channel 4 most. This will help us decide what channel to schedule the documentary on.
5. What time do you usually watch TV?
Conclusion
The results of the questionnaire show that the average time that the audience watch TV is at night (8.30) onwards. This will mean that our documentary will be scheduled during this time.
6. What is your favourite music genre?
Conclusion
The majority of the people who filled in the questionnaire answered pop. This will help us decide what music to include during the documentary.
7. Who is your favourite comedian?
The majority of people we asked to complete our questionnaire said that their favourite comedian is Lee Evans with both Russell Howard and Jason Manford being the second and third most popular. These results suggest that it would appeal to our target audience to feature these comedians in our documentary.
8. Do you attend comedy events?
This result shows that the majority of people we surveyed do not usually attend comedy events.
9. If yes then which events?
This graph shows that the majority of people who said yes to going to comedy events attend the Edinburgh comedy festival. This shows that if we include footage of the festival in our documentary it would appeal to our target audience.
10. What makes you laugh?
The majority of people who answered our questionnaire told us that what make them laugh most is jokes. This lets us know that to appeal to the target audience we should include jokes in our documentary.
11. Do you laugh at things you shouldn’t?
This graph shows that the majority of people we asked to complete our questionnaire admit to laughing at things that they shouldn’t.
12. If yes then give examples.
The majority of people who said they laughed at things they shouldn’t said it was people falling over and people hurting themselves that made them laugh most. This shows that we should include these in our documentary.
Target Audience Research: Questionnaire
Questionnaire
1. Gender
Female £ Male£
2. Age
Under 15£ 16-20£ 21-30£ 31-40£ Over 40£
3. What is your favourite colour?
_________________________________________________________________
4. What TV channel do you watch most?
_________________________________________________________________
5. What time do you usually watch TV?
_________________________________________________________________
6. What is your favourite music genre?
_________________________________________________________________
7. Who is your favourite comedian?
_________________________________________________________________
8. Do you attend comedy event?
_________________________________________________________________
9. If yes which one?
_________________________________________________________________
10. What makes you laugh?
_________________________________________________________________
11. Do you ever laugh at things you shouldnt?
Yes£ No£
12. If yes, give examples
__________________________________________________________________
Initial Plans for documentary
Topic of Documentary: Laughter
Target Audience - Young Adults/ Teenagers 15-20
Channel - Channel 4
Scheduling - 8:30 pm Thursday night, Hammocking between two already popular programmes.
Documentary Title: Laughing Matters
Target Audience - Young Adults/ Teenagers 15-20
Channel - Channel 4
Scheduling - 8:30 pm Thursday night, Hammocking between two already popular programmes.
Documentary Title: Laughing Matters
Brainstorm of content for documentary
This is a mind map of ideas for content that we could include in our documentary.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Documentary Analysis: Inside 9/11
Type of Documentary
Mixed documentary - Features interviews, archive and actality footage
Themes
Terrorism
Narrative Structure
Single strand, linear, closed
Camerawork
Standard framing during interview: Close ups and medium close ups used, positioned to the left or right of the screen, eyeline a 3rd of the way down the screen
POV shot going into airport
Crabshot going through airport terminal
Tracking, panning, zooming and other various camera movements used to film people in airport
Mise-en-scene
Black backgrounds during interviews - doesnt distract viewers
Filming on plane and airport - relevant settings to the topic
Sound
Fast paced eerie music
Voiceover - Standard english, Male, Calm and clear delivery, American accent
As voiceover tells the story of the hijacking the music builds up and quickens in pace
Editing
Flash edits
Fastmotion - tracking through plane
Dissolves
Slowmotion - planes taking off and moving along runway
Cuts
Wipes
Archive Material
Terrorist videos
Footage from attacks
Terrorist training videos
CCTV footage
Phone call from air steward to air traffic control
Satellite images
Radio shows on the morning of the attack
Graphics
White font - subtitles and dates
Red font title with newspaper background over an image of the new york skyline
During interview with name and relevance to topic
Times of day - white font that flashes onto screen
Showing routes of planes
Mixed documentary - Features interviews, archive and actality footage
Themes
Terrorism
Narrative Structure
Single strand, linear, closed
Camerawork
Standard framing during interview: Close ups and medium close ups used, positioned to the left or right of the screen, eyeline a 3rd of the way down the screen
POV shot going into airport
Crabshot going through airport terminal
Tracking, panning, zooming and other various camera movements used to film people in airport
Mise-en-scene
Black backgrounds during interviews - doesnt distract viewers
Filming on plane and airport - relevant settings to the topic
Sound
Fast paced eerie music
Voiceover - Standard english, Male, Calm and clear delivery, American accent
As voiceover tells the story of the hijacking the music builds up and quickens in pace
Editing
Flash edits
Fastmotion - tracking through plane
Dissolves
Slowmotion - planes taking off and moving along runway
Cuts
Wipes
Archive Material
Terrorist videos
Footage from attacks
Terrorist training videos
CCTV footage
Phone call from air steward to air traffic control
Satellite images
Radio shows on the morning of the attack
Graphics
White font - subtitles and dates
Red font title with newspaper background over an image of the new york skyline
During interview with name and relevance to topic
Times of day - white font that flashes onto screen
Showing routes of planes
Documentary analysis: Small Teen Big World
Type of Documentary
Mixed - majority fly on the wall but interviews, archive and actuality footage is used
Themes
Coping with being different - fitting in
Appearance
Narrative Structure
Single strand
Linear
Closed
Camerawork
Standard framing during interviews: Framed to the left or right of the screen, Medium close ups and close ups used and eyeline a third of the way down the screen
Tracking shots
Establishing shots used e.g. landmarks in New York city
Close ups/Extreme close ups of them doing everyday things
Extreme close up of shoes on beach with girls out of focus in the background
POV shot of person in car observing conversation between grandparents
Mise-en-scene
Backgrounds during interview often have nothing going on or are out of focus - doesnt distract viewers from the interview.
Interviews filmed in front of windows (unconventional)
Sound
Voiceover - Girl who the show is about (Jasmine), standard english, calm clear delivery
Contrasts constantly between happy and sad music to suit the topic they are talking about and to fit in with the happy and sad contrasts in the narrative
Lady Gaga - played when discussing that Jasmine is just like every other teenager
Cuts in time with the music
Lots of chart music used
Editing
Cuts used mainly
Stopmotion used
Fastmotion used on tracking shots and used to speed up passers by and cars in new york whilst Jasmine stands still in the foreground
Dissolves used between actuality and archive
Slowmotion used when talking about mothers breakdown
Archive Material
Home movies
Birth of Jamine video
Family photos
Graphics
No graphics used during interview - name and relevance to topic is established using the voiceover
Title - White font on black background
White font at the end to show what happened after the narrative ends.
Mixed - majority fly on the wall but interviews, archive and actuality footage is used
Themes
Coping with being different - fitting in
Appearance
Narrative Structure
Single strand
Linear
Closed
Camerawork
Standard framing during interviews: Framed to the left or right of the screen, Medium close ups and close ups used and eyeline a third of the way down the screen
Tracking shots
Establishing shots used e.g. landmarks in New York city
Close ups/Extreme close ups of them doing everyday things
Extreme close up of shoes on beach with girls out of focus in the background
POV shot of person in car observing conversation between grandparents
Mise-en-scene
Backgrounds during interview often have nothing going on or are out of focus - doesnt distract viewers from the interview.
Interviews filmed in front of windows (unconventional)
Sound
Voiceover - Girl who the show is about (Jasmine), standard english, calm clear delivery
Contrasts constantly between happy and sad music to suit the topic they are talking about and to fit in with the happy and sad contrasts in the narrative
Lady Gaga - played when discussing that Jasmine is just like every other teenager
Cuts in time with the music
Lots of chart music used
Editing
Cuts used mainly
Stopmotion used
Fastmotion used on tracking shots and used to speed up passers by and cars in new york whilst Jasmine stands still in the foreground
Dissolves used between actuality and archive
Slowmotion used when talking about mothers breakdown
Archive Material
Home movies
Birth of Jamine video
Family photos
Graphics
No graphics used during interview - name and relevance to topic is established using the voiceover
Title - White font on black background
White font at the end to show what happened after the narrative ends.
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