Friday, October 15

Audience Opinions about documentaries

We decided our target audience would be teenagers and young adults, as we fell they would be interested in our particular genre and subject. However, the documentary could appeal to everyone as elderly people and families may also be interested in factual information and educational information.
Because of this, we gave out our questionnaires to fill in. We did this to gather as much information about our target audience as possible and to see what they would like in our documentary. By doing this, we are making sure our documentary is tailored around our target audience to ennsure it will be suitable and enjoyable for them.

This is the information we gathered from our research:
What is your gender?
Most of the people that we asked were females as we saw them the main gender audience for the subject of shizophrenia however this will produce bias answers.

What is your occupation?


The most popular job that are audience has is students because of the target audience is a young teenagers and above.


What style of music do you prefer?


By looking at these results it has helped us decide on the style of music that would feature in our documentary. So the most popular style was pop music however we decided that this would not suit the documentary.

What TV channel is your favourite?

This question is helped us to decide on what channel we would feature of documentary on, as the questionnaires were given to people in are target audience we were interested in what channel the like the best and watch the most as this would be the channel that we would use. And the most popular channel is channel 4 is perfect as it also fits in with the type of documentary that we are doing. However my partner thought that it would be different to feature it on ITV one
How often do you watch documentaries?

The question was to find out if our target audience enjoyed documentaries or even watched them at all. As we can see from the results most of the people asked ‘sometimes’ watch documentaries.


When would you most likely watch a documentary on TV?


To help us come up with a time to schedule our documentary this question informs us of what time are audience is most likely to watch a documentary. As they are most likely to watch a documentary between the times of 9pm- 10pm our documentary is going to be scheduled for 9 o’clock.

Would you prefer a male or female voice over?


The results lean more towards female voice over that is because the answers are bias but as of the subject we feel it would be appropriate to have a female voice as most of the audience that would watch the documentary would be female. However, in our documentary we decided to challenge this convention.

Would you like expert interviews included?



We were unsure as weather to add expert interviews into are documentary so the results of this question have decided for us. As the results give us no clear answer we are going to add them when appropriate for example when talking about symptoms and treatments of schizophrenia

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