2. Proposal
I am going to be creating a radio podcast about
pantomimes. My main objective is to find out if
people enjoy participating in them, and if they
feel they get anything rewarding out of them at
the end.
I want my podcast to be like a segment from
Radio 1, when they interview celebrities, for
example when a film is released the stars of the
film will do interviews for radio.
3. Primary research
I created a survey on SurveyMonkey and then posted the link
on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook and tagged the people I do
panto with, so I could gather their responses.
When I had a panto rehearsals I sat down with my cast mate
Nat and asked her a few questions.
Firstly I asked her about her experience throughout the years of
doing panto. She said about working her way up throughout
different roles. It was a chance for her to experience different
roles and find out which one she was comfortable with playing.
It was a semi structured interview that provided information that
I used to make my questionnaires. May T (2002) says “these
types of interviews are said to allow people to answer more on
their own terms than the standardized interview permits.”
4. Primary + quantitative research
Age
2
4
Male
4
Female
16-19
20-26
6
27-31
2
32+
2
Occupation
The first graph shows the number of females
compared to the number of men involved in
pantomimes.
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Series1
The age graph shows the number of people
involved in pantomimes. And it shows that it is
mainly younger people that are involved.
The occupations of the people I asked
vary, most of them are either self
employed, administrative or sales assistants.
5. Secondary, qualitative research
Birmingham University has found that watching
pantomimes also has the same effect on people as
watching Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor.
This is a review from The Reporter
Feb/21/2013 for the Pantomime Jack and Jill
6.
7. Qualitative research
To collect qualitative research I created a survey
and asked some of the following questions
I asked these questions because I wanted a range of varied
answers, and the answers I got to these questions were all very
different, as some people said that they were influence by what they
saw, and wanted to be a part of it.
8. Conclusion
From my survey I have found out that the people that take
part in pantomimes are mainly women aged between 16 to
19.
When asked how they got involved in pantomime most of
the answers revolved around being influenced by family.
Also when asked how enjoyable they found rehearsals
leading up to the performances most of the answers were
over the rating of 8.
From the answers that I have collected, I have interpreted
that most of the people who answered feel that
pantomimes are rewarding.
9. Bibliography
McQueen and Knussen (2002) Reseach
Methods for Social Science, an introduction.
Prentice Hall London
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/our/news/
items/Pantomime.aspx
https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/2J7cDv
GGkZiuofaMlC67lMIsf0UNTWkmFIEQnGfi0_2B
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