2. To gather my research for my questionnaire I had 50
copies of my questionnaire ready to hand out to the
general public. I went to Acocks Green and Solihull
town centre to get my questionnaires filled in by the
public. It was difficult to manage to get 50 people to
fill in my questionnaire. As a result of this I managed
to get 30 of my 50 copies filled in, I thought this
would be enough for my research. I asked a range
of different questions about documentaries and the
status of the person I asked. I gathered information
on the people I asked and what they like to see in a
documentary. For each question the person I asked
could tick 1 or more boxes in my questionnaire.

5. From the results of this
By what you can see by the results of
questionnaire it shows that the
my questionnaire is that more females
majority of the people I asked were
answered the questionnaire as
either aged between 12-18 or 19-
opposed to males. Out of the 30
25. From the 30 people I asked in
people I asked, 60 % were females
my questionnaire 37% were 12-18,
and 40% were males.
30% 19-25, 23% 26-39 and 10%
aged 40 or older. As it shows my
questionnaire is based on younger
people.

6. Out of the 30 people I asked in my
As you can see from my research a research most people stated other
higher number of people I asked rather than picking manual,
are students rather than being in professional or public service. The
work or unemployed. Out of the 30 majority of these people have
people I asked 43% are students, different types of jobs to the obvious
27% are in part time work, 27% in types. In my research only 23% of the
full time work and only 3% are people I asked did manual work, 10%
currently unemployed. This shows had a professional job, 20% were in
that my main target audience are public service and the other 47% had
going to be students. a different occupation to the ones
stated.

7. For this part of my research I wanted I asked in my questionnaire ‘what is
to find out how many hours a week your favourite type of program?’. I gave
people watched television. Out of the the option of soaps, drama,
30 people I asked 20% watched 0-5 documentary, game shows or other.
hours, 30% watched 6-11 hours, Out of the 30 people I asked 30% liked
40% watched 12-20 hours and 10% soaps, 35% liked drama, 17% preferred
watched 21 or more hours a week. documentary, 10 % game shows and
So the majority of my sample 8% preferred another type of program.
watched television for 12-20 hours a
week.

8. Now that I know my whole sample
I knew most people have more than
have watched a documentary I wanted
likely watched at least 1
to find out how man hours a week they
documentary but I wanted to make
spent watching one. From my results
sure so I asked if they have on my
9% don’t spend any time in a week
questionnaire. 30 out of 30 have
watching one, 38 % watch at least 1
watched a documentary so I now
hour a week, 31% spend 2 hours a
know what a documentary consists
week watching a documentary, 19%
of.
spend 3 hours a week watching one
and 3% spend 4 hours watching a
documentary.

9. I know many different channels show
documentaries, so in my questionnaire As technology has evolved
I wanted to find out what channels documentaries can now be
people prefer to watch documentaries accessed online by demand like
on. Most of the people I asked put 4OD, BBC iplayer and ITV
down two choices. For any BBC player. So I wanted to know
channel 20% prefer to watch a how people accessed
documentary on this channel, 12% for documentaries. The majority of
ITV, 21% for channel 4, 7% for the people I asked stated they
channel 5, 13% for discovery, 11% for accesses them on TV as 67%
national geographic, 7% for history said this, 24% accesses them
channel and % for sky sports as there on the internet, 9% on Xbox
preferred channel. 360/ps3 and 0% for other.

10. Most importantly I wanted to know what peoples favourite topics
where in a documentary. As you can see above I gave the option
of all these topics in my questionnaire. The people I asked could
state more than 1 choice in the questionnaire. Out of the 30 people
I asked 17% like crime, 15% sport, 12% culture, 4%
cities/countries, 3% liked politics, 12% health, 12% food, 6%
military, 12% science and 7% liked natural world. As most crime
and sport had the highest percentage I knew it was more than
likely the most interesting topics for a documentary and what my
target audience would like to see in my documentary.