Questionnaire analysis

1. Questionnaire Survey Results

2. Several of our surveys found that students aged 17-18
watched documentaries on BBC Three, another reason as to
why we chose to broadcast our documentary on BBC Three as
students are our target audience and will be watching.
We targeted both males and females, and generally
their results correlated closely to each other, and
because students are both male and female, we
will be applying our documentary to both genders.
Students at college will be finding this time most stressful, so we
wanted to focus mainly on college students rather than secondary
school who are aged 16 and below. All of our surveys targeted
college students who are aged 16-18 so the results we found were
helpful in seeing what they wanted to see in a documentary.
Most students who filled out the questionnaire tended to
watch documentaries a fair amount, whether it was just one a
month or one a week, they have still experienced watching
documentaries and know what they like, so their results that
they returned were very useful to us.

3. It was also a common result from our questionnaires that
students wanted to watch a documentary that would inform or
educate them about something. This is suitable as our
documentary will be entirely educational and informative as it is
teaching the audience about exams and giving statistics and
expert interviews about if exams are really fair.
When we asked what people would want to see
in a documentary and gave them the choice to
write freely, again, many wanted information
about the topic of the documentary and they
wanted to learn something new, and gain a new
insight from seeing differing arguments. This
response was helpful as we know that we need
to include facts and statistics to inform and teach
our audience new things about exams that they
may not have previously known.

4. One thing which we found particularly interesting
and we thought would help in the creation and
argument of our documentary was the response to
the question ‘do you think exams are a fair
representation of intelligence?’ which is the question
our whole documentary is based on. The response to
this question (disregarding all other questions in the
survey) returned the same sort of reply, which was
no, students do not think that exams are a fair
representation of intelligence. This helps us
massively, as we know that we need to attract the
students who are our target audience and we need
to get their point of view across so that they can
relate. Therefore, this response is critical in the
argument and will help our documentary apply well
to the audience.