The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire about watching habits and interests in documentaries. It shows that the primary audience is 15-17 year olds, mostly female, who watch documentaries once a week on Channel 4. They prefer male voiceovers and genres like indie music. Most have regrets related to school and would be interested in a documentary about regrets, though most would not feel comfortable speaking about their own regrets. The results help inform planning for a documentary about regrets by identifying the target audience and topics of interest.

1. 1.How old are you?
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15-17 18-20 21-23 24-26
This shows that the majority of people who answered my questionnaire
were in the age range of 15-17 years old so therefore this determines
our key age range. This enabled us to give a further understanding of
what our target audience would want.

2. 2.What gender are you?
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Male Female
We asked 8 males and 22 females who are our primary audience for our
documentary, so this gender was our focus in order to get more accurate results.

3. 3.Do you watch documentaries?
Yes
No
This result tells us that there is people out there watching
documentaries so we would be able to have a target audience focus as
there is enough people out there watching them to select a particular
age range and gender to aim our documentary at.

4. 4.What type of documentary would
you be most interested in?
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Lifestyle Health History Food Sport Science Fashion Music Other
This shows that people are most interested in documentaries about music and
other which is what our documentary about regrets would come under.

5. 5.What channel do you watch?
BBC1
ITV1
Channel 4
Channel 5
ITV2
Other
From our results we can see what channel our audience prefers to watch which is
channel 4 this supports our initial plan to show our documentary on channel 4 which
currently already has shown a lot of successful documentaries.

6. 6.Would you prefer a Male or Female
voiceover?
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Female
Male
The results show that our audience would prefer to hear a male voice over
which has made our decision to have a male voice over on our documentary.

7. 7.What genre of music does you like
the most?
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Indie RNB Rock Pop Country House Blues Disco Hip Hop Dance Jazz Other
The results show that our target audience are most interested the genre
indie music which will help up when deciding what songs to include into
our documentary.

8. What is your favourite colour?
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Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Other
Our results show that the most popular colour where red, purple and blue this has
helped our group to decide on what colours will most attract our audience.

9. 9. How often do you watch
documentaries?
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Once a week Once a month 2-3 times a week Other
Our results show that most people are watching documentaries once a week
which confirms that we would have a large number of viewers when broadcasting
our documentary.

10. 10. Who do you watch television with?
Family
Friends
Alone
Other
Our results show that most people watch television with their family’s
this would widen the number of viewers and age range for our
documentary as this confirms that most people sit together in the living
room with their family’s when watching their choose of programme.

11. 11.Do you access documentaries any
other way?
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Other
Youtube
Record
Catch up
From our results we can see that our audience watch documentaries
on catch up if they don’t catch it on the time its broadcasted. This
widens our number of viewers as people with busy lifestyles can
catch up on our documentary at a time which is most suitable to
them.

12. 12. What time of day do you watch
television the most?
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Morning Afternoon Evening Late night Other
Our results show that our audience watch television the most at evenings
which determines what time we will broadcast our documentary which will be
in the evening as this is the time when we will gain the most viewers.

13. 13.Would you be interested in
watching a documentary about
people’s regrets?
Yes
No
The results for this question show s that regrets is a topic that our audience
would be interested In watching a documentary on. This also determines that
we have the correct target audience as the majority of them would be
interested in watching our documentary.

14. 14. Do you have any regrets?
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Yes No
This shows that well over half of our audience have regrets themselves
so therefore could relate to our documentary when they hear other
people talking about regrets and why we have them in our every day
lives.

15. 15. How many regrets do you have?
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None
Other
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The results show that most of our audience have either 3 regrets or none this
question helps us see the mentality of people’s view on regrets. This will help us
when looking at the phycology behind regrets .

16. 16.What do your regrets involve?
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Family Work School Other None
These results show that the majority of our audience stated their regret
didn’t come under our choice of answers or where school related. This
will help us when choosing our key focuses on topics of regrets.

17. 17.Would you feel comfortable talking
about regrets you have had in your
life?
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Yes No N/A
This shows that our audience would not be comfortable talking about
their regrets which concludes that we would have to consider looking
at a different age range to interview who are comfortable talking about
their regrets openly.

18. 18.Have you ever tried to put right a
regret?
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Yes No N/A
This shows that 20 people out of the 30 we asked said that they have
never tried to put a regret right this helps us with the content of our
documentary as this could be a huge question relating to the phycology
pathway we could take in finding out the phycology behind why the
majority of people haven't tried to put a regret right.