2. 1. How Often Do You Watch
Documentaries?
13%
25%
32%
12%
18%
All The Time
Often
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
3. 2. Which institution are you most likely
to associate with documentaries?
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
BBC ITV Channel 4 Channel 5 MTV Sky
4. 3. What is the name of your favourite
documentary?
• Big Brother x4
• Catfish x3
• TOWIE x6
• Made In Chelsea x9
• Road Wars x2
• Educating Essex x7
• UK Border Force x1
• The X Factor x10
• Police Interceptors x2
• 16 & Pregnant x3
• Cribs x5
• Educating Yorkshire x8
• Obese: A Year To Save My Life x2
• America’s Next Top Model x4
• Sun, Sea and A&E x2
• Nothing to Declare x1
• Geordie Shore x9
• Educating Joey Essex x4
• 9/11 x2
• Countryfile x1
• Long Lost Families x4
• My Big Fat gypsy Wedding x11
• Planet Earth x3
• 24 hours in A&E x7
5. 4. What institution is it made by?
4%
22%
38%
18%
7%
11%
BBC ITV
Channel 4 Channel 5
MTV Sky
6. 5. Approximately how many Documentaries
have you watched this year?
Number of People Number of Documentaries
12 Less than 5
16 5-10
21 11-15
27 16-20
17 21-25
9 26-30
8 More Than 30
7. 6. Which institution did you use most
when watching them?
BBC
• 6%
ITV
• 10%
Channel 4
• 28%
Channel 5
• 20%
MTV
• 19%
Sky
• 17%
8. 7. Tick three conventions that you find
most useful in a documentary.
• Voiceovers
• Reenactment
• Interviews
• Exposition
• Facts & Statistics
• Montage
• Hidden Cameras
• Archival Footage
In order of most
ticked to least ticked.
9. 8. What would you most like to learn about
through watching a documentary?
Crime
Teenagers
Education
Real Life
Stories
Disasters
Life of a…
10. 9. What is you favourite genre of
documentary?
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Expostiory Observational Interactive Reflective
11. 10. What editing technique do you
most like in a documentary?
Music
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Filters/Effects
Clip Editing/Cross
Cutting
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