Questionnaire Results

Results from the questionnaire powerpoint from Andie-gurtiie Bp

Conclusion:

The results that came back from the first question was pretty clear, we asked people from the ages of 20-40 to answer our questionnaire, and the age that appeared the most was 20-25 year old, this gives us a clue on what age it is we need to focus our documentary on. The next question was about gender, there were more female to answer the questionnaire then men, so again our results tell us that we need to base our documentary on women and what they like. However there will be aspects to the documentary that will possibly appeal to some men.

The next question we asked was do you buy sweets? only three people said no and the other 27 said yes this allows us to go ahead with the idea of having a documentary on sweets, but it also show that we can have conflict in our documentary because we can talk to those who do like them and who doesn't like them.
Th next question was asking if they were diabetic, only one person said yes, but it will still be a good idea to talk about this in our documentary as we can ask them about what types of sweets they buy etc.

The next question was ow often do you buy sweets, 13 people said every week this was what people said the most, the least voted was every year, only 2 people said this. The next question was how much do you spend on sweets? the majority of people said that they spent £1 - £2 and the least amount spent on sweets was £5 or other. This will allow us to talk about how the prices have changed throughout the years, which links with the next question. We asked do you think sweet have changed since you were younger, 53% of people said yes to this question. The next question was do you think the prices have changed since you were younger, 28 people said yes.

We asked people what there favourite sweet were and we had many different types of sweets given to us, some that are old and some that are new. The top three colours that were chosen most for the documentary were red, pink and blue. We also asked what songs do they think are associated with sweets the majority said 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' songs, and 'Candy Man' by Christina Aguilera.

We asked the audience if they would prefer a male or female voice over, 22 people said famale, 2 said male and another two said either they didn't mind, one person actually said if depends on what is being talked about.

We asked if they liked the original 1971 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film' the majority of people said yes, one person said they liked it because the songs were really catchy. 4 people said no, one person said because it looked fake and was over exaggerated. We asked the audience if the film had any influence on them liking sweets 11 people said yes "I liked the idea of a chocolate fountain" and 19 people said no "I already like sweet".

We asked the audience if they watched documentaries 53% said yes and 47% said that they did not. However we asked if they would watch a documentary on sweets, on channel 4 at 8 O'clock and 22 people said yes and 8 people said no. This tells us that was are able to run it at this time on this channel.

Our last question was how regularly do you go to the dentist? most people said every six months and the least said was every month and other. This tells us that it would be good to interview a dentist as it allows us to find out how many people they see every six months.

Questionnaire

1. How old are you?
2. What gender are you?
3. Do you like sweets?
4. Are you a diabetic?
5. How regularly do you buy sweets?
6. How much do you spend on sweets?
7. Do you think sweets have changes since you were younger?
8. Do you think prices have changed over the years?
9. What is your favorite sweet?
10. Pick three colours that you associate with sweets.
11. What music do you associate with sweets?
12. Would you prefer a male or famale voice over in a documentary about sweets, and why?
13. Do you like the origenal 1971 film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'?
14. Did 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' have an impact on how much you liked sweets? And why?
15. Do you watch documentaires?
16. Would you watch a documentary about sweets, on Channel 4, at eight o'clock?
17. How regularly do you go to the dentist?

'Initial plans'

 

Our Title: Sweet or Sour

   

Ideas for the documentary - 'Brainstorm'

I used the softwear glogster, as it is a good way of creting brainstorms and collages.

TV schedualing

1.

The schedual for each day can be broken down inot clear segments. How would you categorise these segments?

Early am - Adults and children - News, CBBC, Cbebbies etc.

Late am, early pm - Retired people, jobless, housewives, mothers

4:00-6:00pm - Childrens television, the news

6:00-9:00pm - Soaps, TV drama

9:00pm onwards Watershed) - Violence, drigs, alcohol, sex etc.

2.

Who are the target audience for thede segments?

Early am: Children and adults

Early pm: Those who dont work, those who stay home in the day time

Late afternoon 6:00pm : Children, Adults, Teens, Elderly

6:00-9:00pm - Young adults, Adults, Elderly

9:00pms onwards: Adults

3.

What would you say are the most popular genres of television?

- Chat shows

- Reality TV: 'Celebrity get me Out of Here'

- News

- TV drama

- Factual

4.

Wgo is the target audence of each terresrial channel? Give examples of schedual programmes to support your views.

- BBC 1: Mixed ausdience, mainly adults, some children

- BBC 2: Older adult. E.g. 'My life in Books' - more niche

- ITV 1: Females inthe morning, mass audience later on in the afternoon. E.g. 'X-factor'

- Channel 4: Niche audience, at different times of the day; Children: 'Hoobs', 'Teens and childern: 'The Simpsons', Older audience:' Deal or no Deal', Older audience and Teens: 'Ugly Betty'

- Channel 5: More mass audience. 'Ice road Truckers'

5.

Roughtly, what percentage of each channels scheduals is take up eith repeats? Why do you think this is?

Roughly a third of each channels schedual is taken up with repeats, due to it being cheaper.

6.

Which channels have more imported programmes in their scheduals? Why do you think this might be?

- Appeals to specific target audience: 'The Simpsons' appeals to young children and adults

'Ugley Betty' appeals to an older female audience

- Could be that it is cheaper

7.

What do you understand about the term 'The watershed' and where does this occur in th e scheduals?

9:00pm and on wards
The term is the time period in a television schedule during which programs with adult content can air.
It comes from a geographic term, A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems.

Inheritance:

Scedual a programme after a popular programme to inherit some of the audience.

Pre-echo:
Schedual a programme before a popular programme so the audience will catch the end of the new programme.

Hammocking:
Place a programme between two popular programmes.

New Technologise - Remote controls:
Weare capable to change programmes more easily, and due to this scheduals have less impact as an audience may 'Channel Hop'. However before remotes people used to have to move to change the channel, now it is easier. In the 60s, 70s and 80s there was channel loyalty, it is now a thing of the past due to global, digital and satellite TV. There are more trailers to encourage people to watch shows/programmes then there where back then.

Evaluation of 'It's Good to Talk'

Good points about the interview:

Cut-aways were good, as we used a variety of different shots As the interviewee was being interviewed she could be heard clearly.
he mise-en-scene was really good as it was relevent (mobile phones)
The framing was done well, as she was in the right hand corner  1/4 of the way done the screen.
he use of music was good, as it was clear and relevent to the documentary
('Telephone' - Lady GaGa and Beyonce, 'Call me maybe' - Carly Rey-Jepson)
he sound was clear as the interviewee could be heard and the music was clear.

Bad points about the interview:
The interviewee looked in the camera now and then whilst answering the questions, which shouldn happen.
The cutaways where only of mobile phones and didnt really illustrate what the interviewee was talking about. There needed to be a wider variety.
We used cross fades which we shouldn't have had to do if we had more cut-aways.
The music should be bedded all the way through the interview, and it shouldn't cut off as people are speaking, it just needs to fade be quiter.
The camera should be mounted on a tripod to prevent bad footage, as the camera appeared to wobble in areas of the interview.

Finished 'Its Good to Talk' video

 

Editing 'It's good to talk'

Editing from Andie-gurtiie Bp

Filming - 'It's Good to talk'

'It's Good to Talk' - filming. on Prezi

Planning - 'It's Good to Talk'

Planning - 'Its good to talk' on Prezi

The codes and conventions of filming, and editing interviews

The coads and conventions of filming and editing interviews
by: Andie_Pickersgill


In the Teeth of JAWS - part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw

When watching the documentary 'In the teeth of JAWS', many of the codes and conventions were noticable and were used continuously.

Graphics where used will mainly to identify those who were being interviewed. Graphics where also used in cut-aways to a shot of the sea, and an animated shark jumped out of the water this was possible to create tension and maybe shock.

Music and sound effects were used in the documentary, for example, the JAWS theme tune was played in the backgroud, as a way of building up what they were talking about.

The lighting in the documentary was also well thought about, as there was no one filmed with the light behind them, and in one interview it looks as though the interviewee is being filmed with a lamp shining on him too add light.

There was a good use of location and mise-en-scene, as they interviewed a man who was sitting in front of a small beach were you could see the sea behind him this was good because, it was a main feature in the documentary. Most of the interviews had a large pisture of a shark or had things behind them that were related to sharks to keep the theme of the documentary.

There was a mix of shots, some shots were in a mid-shot and others were in a medium close up. Also in the interviews they had there interviewees sitting on different angles. There were also many cut-aways used to illustrate what people where talking about for example the picture designs of jaws, or the ways in which a shark moved, and what was most scary about a shark.

And archieve footage was also used throughtout the documentary of the movie that was made, to illustrate what was being talked about and said.

 

 

The Simpsons 20th Annaversary special:

 

 

Documentary coads and converntions

I used Xtranormal to design this blog as it is interesting and is a great way of showing my skills in graphic design.

Documentary codes and converntions
by: Andie_Pickersgill

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