Documentary Title

Revealing
Reed's

10%

25%

20%

Inside Reed's
Educating
Surrey
Cobham's
Finest School

45%

As you can see clearly the

favourite title was Inside Reeds. Originally we had chosen
Educating Surrey but after taking up the questionnaire we
found out that we could not use that name due to copyright. As
a group we also like Inside Reeds as it felt more relevant to the
documentary. The simple title also sounds like a show that
would be on Channel 4 being simplistic yet effective. In addition
to this having the name Reeds in the title was effective as the
documentary is based about the school.

Interest in Documentary
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%

The
feedback
from
this
question was particularly encouraging having the higher results
being positive in interest. Not only this but it was not just one
age group that selected these two columns it was a variety.
Meaning that our product has a wider audience than we had
originally expected. Because the documentary was based
around school it was encouraging to see that there was only
one negative response saying either yes, likely or yes, 100%
from the teenage to young adult age group. This aided us
hugely when it came to advertising our product.
When taking in the responses to this question we had an idea
that Channel 4 would have the highest percentage as our
documentary is similar to an Educating series one. In some
instances, people may not have known and just taken a guess
so our results might be slightly floored. The MTV results took us
slightly by surprise being so close to the Channel 4 votes. This
result may have been high because the description may have
been taken a different way and taken in as more of an
observational style of documentary which are usually found on
MTV.

Documentary Type
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%

1
Educational

Social

Political

Geographical

Crime

Cultural

Medical

Historical

It was encouraging to see

that the types of documentary ours is about both are in the top
3 voted by our audience. It took us by surprise having such a
high percentage for crime but that might have been because of
the younger to middle age audience enjoying more action
based documentaries. Whereas if there were more responses
from an older audience the results may have been slightly
different.

These results were sort of what we expected coming from this

question. Having the top result being just voiceover gave us
huge
encouragement
as
this
was
the

Presenter

Not At All; 5%
On Screen, Yes Interaction; 30%
Just Voiceover; 50%
On Screen, No Interaction; 15%

style our documentary had. In a

lot of circumstances, we understood why two of the results
were low because there is not much relevance in those two
situations. It seems that the audience likes having something
on the screen they can see in a participatory mode or just the
voiceover in more of an observational mode. They both provide
them with information but do not distract them from the action
going on in the documentary.

Conclusion

Our audience feedback was very useful in regard to the

furthering of our documentary. After the feedback we found out
that there was a clear age group that all have similar taste
when it comes to documentaries like this one therefore we
understood who we were targeting our product at and therefore
helped us in the editing and marketing stages of our
documentary.