Audience research

Q1. Are you male or Female?

We gave our questionaire out around the college, we gave 30 questionaires out and now have collated the results. There were 19 males and 11 females asked.

Q2. What age group are you part of?

As we asked the people around college, the majority (28) were in the age range of 10-25. Through this, we can recognice that the questionaire could be bias, and does not have a range of opinion.

Q3. Whats your favourate colour?

We asked the question "What is your favourate colour?" so we could find out what the preferred colour for the graphics would be. we have decided to use blue as it was most popular in the questionaire.

Q4. How many hours a week do you watch television?

Q5. What time of the day do you watch television?

This question was asked mainly for the purpose of scheduling the documentary. Once we found out what the most popular time for viewing was, we could then easily decide on a time to put it on at. The most popular times that the audience selected were primetime and evening.

Q6. Which terrestrial channel is your favourate?

Also, this question was asked mainly for scheduling purposes. We asked the audience what there favourate terrestrial channel was so we knew what channel to put it on. Channel 4 was the main terrestrial channel. We now know what channel to put our documentary on.

Q7. What are you scared of?

This question was asked so that we could get an insite of what the population is most scared of. The question did have limited answers. The majority of the audience were scared of spiders. This helps us a great deal, in a sense that we now know some of the main priorities of the documentary, and what we should focus on.

Q8. Are you scared of anything else?

This question was an open question. Some people wrote down

-Small spaces

-Dust

-Death

-Water

-Feet

-Hands

-Hospitals

-Blood

-Injections/needles

-Fish

This also gave us an insite of what people are scared of, oppsed to what makes people happy.

Q9. Why are you scared of this?

The question was also open ended. There were varities of answers, but most left this question blank, probably because they couldnt answer it.

Q10. Have you ever considered getting any help?

As you can see, everyone asked answered 'no' to the question "have you ever considered getting any help?". From this we drew the conclusions of that maybe they are embarrased of their fears, or maybe their fears dont really play a huge part in their lives.

Q11. How does your fear effect your life?

Different answers were given, such as

-Running away

-Sweating

-Dizziness

-Crying

-Collapsing

This question also gave us idea on what fears and phobias can do to people.

Q12. Does it effect your daily life?

Some people said no. Some said that it only effects them when their fear becomes real, or becomes very extreme.

Q13. Are you still scared of your childhood fears?

Q14. Has something your parents have been scared of ever effected you?

The majority ansewerd yes. From this we see that fears and phobias could be passed down from generations. This gives us another topic or focus to look into.

Q15. Are you scared of the dark?

Q16. Have you ever been scared of the dark?

In comparison to the question "are you scared of the dark?" Showed us that most people have been scared of the dark once in their life, as the majority of answers from the audience was yes.

Some of the audience decided to follow on the question giving us examples. Some of which were

-Walking home late.

-After a scary film

-Hearing stories.

Q17. What is the scariest film you have ever seen?

This question also gave us further ideas on why people are so scared of the things they fear.

Some answers were

-Texas chainsaw masacre

-The ring

-The orphanage

-Mirrors

-The last exorsist

-Th Exorsism

-It

-A nightmare on elm street

-Scream

-Halloween

Q18. What celebrities scare you?

This question was asked to keep the audience entertained.

The majority answered 'Katie Price'

Q19. When you encounter your phobia what happens?

This question wasnt really answered properly, but some said they would run away, pass out, cry, or vomit.

Q20. How long does it take to calm yourself down?