For our audience feedback we showed the opening 5 minutes of our documentary to a focus group of 25 people in our class which consisted a majority of different ages and genders. We did this to gain some audience feedback on what they thought about our documentary, print advert and radio trailer. At the end of showing the three products, we asked them all as a class 6 questions . I also asked a few people a some questions about the documentary who werent inthe focus group, I also recorded them. We received some good comments and some criticisms that we can come to a final conclusion with . These questions below are the questions I asked certain individuals.
1. Having seen the first five minutes, would you want to watch the whole programme?
Nicola Borgous 35 teacher
Kerry Evans 36 Adminisatrator
"I would finish watching the documentary to find out what happens at the end, but I wouldn’t originally watch it if it was on television, because it is not my cup of tea, i would say its more for the younger generation!"
Lauren Curry 17: student
"I thought It was clever interviewing different people from different groups, it was unusual and also interesting hearing their point of view."
95% of the focus group said they would want to watch the whole documentary after seeing the first five minutes.
2. What do you think are the strengths of the programme and where could we make improvements?
This is a collage I have made of a few people from the focus group, with their comments of what they liked about the documentary and what they thought could be improved
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3. How does this product compare to a professional media product?
Framing of my documentary
When getting our audience feedback from the focus group 90% agreed that our documentary looked professional because the framing was accurate, the voice over was clear, the music anchored well with the whole genre of the documentary and the title looked very professional.
Gemma Mcdade 18: Student
‘The Youtube footage looked a bit blurry and ruined the look of the programme, it did not look professional.’
Trevor Oates 24: Plumber
I liked the way the title fades into one and the ‘In’ dissolves into a different corner, it works really well.’
80% of the focus group thought that title of the documentary was the strongest point.
4. What do you think is the strongest technical aspect of the programme and why? (Camera Work, Sound Editing etc)
Mise en scene of a proper documentary
100% of the focus group agreed that the other strongest point of the documentary was the mise-en scene of the interviews, however there were criticisms because the voice over did not link everything together and it was out of time, they also commented that we could have wrote the script better.
5. Does the print advert make you interested in wanting to watch the programme?
Faye Howard 18: student
“The print advert looks different as the three lads who are all standing together look unusual as they come from different subcultures and its not what you expect to see every day.”
Lee Farragher 18: student
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About 80% of the focus group commented on the print advert and said that it would make them want to watch the whole programme.The remaining 20% said that they would not watch it because of the programme not being aimed at their age group.
6. What did you know of subcultures before watching the programme and what do you know of it now?
George Williamson 17 Student
Radu Teagun 18 Student
‘Now watching the documentary it has made me think more about how I judge people and not to judge them because of the way they look.”
In conclusion, the audience feedback we received within our focus group was that:
the subject of the documentary is what our audience found interesting and they would want to watch the whole documentary, this made the audience want to watch the whole programme, this was because of the interviews, the use of the title and the interesting narrative structure it had.
However one major weakness was the sound quality and sound levels were not professional throughout the documentary. The other weak point of the documentary was that the YouTube footage looked pixaleted , however we have removed the YouTube footage and included more of our own footage. Throughout our coursework we have created interesting work, not just with our titles, but with the whole content of the different interviews and the different members in different subcultures . Which I am deeply proud of.
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