The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to an audience about various aspects of a documentary being produced. Key points: - Wearing crocs and socks was seen as the most unattractive way to portray the character Finn. - A restaurant date was deemed the most realistic location. - Including a psychologist's perspective on awkwardness was found to add interest. - Showing 2 failed dates in the first 5 minutes was favored. - A time-lapse of Finn alone at school was suggested to depict his lack of friends. - Awkward silences were ranked as the most awkward part of a date. - Viewers felt having an expert review Finn's wardrobe would be

1. Questionnaire Analysis
By Robbie Nicholas

2. Q1: Of these options, which do you perceive
to be the most unattractive for a guy?
As a group, we had a discussion about
how we thought the male character in
our documentary should be presented.
We agreed that these four options
would be the best to choose from.
As a result of the questionnaire, we
established that wearing crocs and
socks would be the best way to
portray our character of ‘Finn’, in an
unattractive manner. We will consider
this strongly when we start the filming
of the bad date that Finn will have
with Dalia.

3. Q2: What is the best location for
a date?
We had a debate about whether it is
professional enough to film a date as a
picnic, and what we could include in
that picnic to make it look like a proper
date.
In the end we decided that a date in a
restaurant is the most civilised and
realistic place for a date. This was
reinforced by just under 53% of the
audience that answered our
questionnaire.
We are still to decide whether it is
practical enough for us to film in a
restaurant.

4. Q3: Would you enjoy a section in the
documentary where a professional explores the
reasoning behind a person’s awkwardness?
The reasoning behind this question
was to get an idea of whether or not
we should get an psychologist to talk
about the psychology involved in
dating.
Consequently, we discovered that it is
a good idea to include this in the 5
minutes of our documentary because
it provides an added interest for the
audience.

5. Q4: How many failed dates
should we show?
We thought it would be best to
ask an audience about how
many dates they think we
should include in our
documentary, bearing in mind
the part we show is only the first
5 minutes of the episode.
Showing 2 failed dates in our
documentary came out as the
majority. We will make the final
decision on whether we should
show 1 or 2 but these answers
have allowed us to be confident
we are on the right track.

6. Q5: How should we depict a character with
no friends in terms of camera shots and
editing ideas?
We thought of various ideas that
would portray Finn in an
awkward and lonely character.
The questionnaire allowed us to
determine that a time-lapse would
be the best way of connoting this.
Finn sitting in a free period, or
even at break would be the best
time to do this because there
would be a lot of people his age
around and would show that he is
an awkward person to go up and
talk to and as a result, is generally
avoided by people.

7. Q6: Rank in order of importance,
the elements of an awkward date.
Our thoughts behind this were that
we wanted to get a better idea of
what other people would find
awkward if they were to watch a
date in a documentary.
As shown by the graph, talking
during the date is considered
perfectly normal and would not be
awkward. Bad manners and
Lydia’s facial expressions are both
considered equally awkward but
none more awkward than awkward
silences.

8. Q7: Would it be interesting to see an expert
go through the character’s wardrobe?
We are contemplating having a
scene where we ‘hire an expert’
to go through Finn’s wardrobe
and have a look at his fashion
taste and help him improve it for
his next date.
Almost 80%, a significant
proportion, of the audience felt
that this would be a great idea
and would be a beneficiary to
our documentary.

9. Q8: How much of our character’s
failed date(s) should be show?
We were undecided on how long to
show for the date(s) that we film.
Over half of the audience felt that
we should show 1 and a half
minutes of the date(s). After
looking at these results, we will
make a decision on this, whilst
taking into account this does
depend on how many dates we
show. If we show 1 date then 1 and
a half minutes might be reasonable.
However, if we show 2 dates, we
may opt to show somewhere
around a minute because otherwise
the audience may start to lose
interest.

10. Q9: What should the job title of our
‘last episode’s’ female character be?
We were originally favouring the
‘teacher’ job title but we were not
100% certain.
As expected, lawyer and teacher are
the 2 favourites but we think that a
teacher is a more realistic person for
our documentary. One of the reasons
for this is the fact that lawyers often
work long hours and therefore
lawyers at the age we were showing
wouldn’t have much time to be going
on dates.

11. Q10: The part of the documentary that we are filming
will end with the beginning of our character’s next
date. How should we leave it in suspense?
Our aim for this question was to get an
idea for what people, of the age that we
are targeting for the production of our
film, think would keep them intrigued
and desperate to watch the rest of the
episode after the advertisement break.
Gladly, the majority of the audience
agreed that showing our character
sitting down and the door being opened
and a girl walking in but only being able
to see her legs, would be the best way to
keep an audience interested. This will
hopefully be both because they want to
see who the girl is, but also they want to
see how he gets on after being helped
out my experts.