Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

When we were first making decisions about what our documentary would contain, we handed out a questionnaire we constructed to 10 females and 10 males from all differ ant age ranges. The response we got was that many of the individuals favoured fly on the wall or reality style documentaries, which fit perfectly with our idea of Teaching Teens. Many of them said they enjoyed Educating Essex, so we felt sure that they would enjoy our documentary. They also said they would expect to see a documentary like ours on Channel 4, which reinforced our decision of airing it on that Channel which we had already decided. The successful response from this questionnaire meant that we could go ahead with our idea, feeling sure that it would be a documentary which would appeal to a wide range of people.

Once we had completed our questionnaire, we uploaded it onto youtube in hope of getting some wide spread opinions.

Me and my group all promoted it onto twitter, asking for people to watch and leave comments. We quickly started getting responses, through Twitter and Youtube comments. We found this really helpful because the documentary was reaching a wide spread audience, of not only just our friends. We thought this would be really helpful because then the comments would be more reliable as to what people actually thought about it. Nearly all of the responses we got were positive, claiming we had nice camera work and the elements we added such as #teachingteens worked really well because it made it look more realistic.








However, we did get one criticism. This was left as a Youtube comment
which said that the quality of the clips themselves were not very good, which over-all let the documentary down. Unfortunately, although this was good criticism, it was something which our group could not help because we had no choice of video camera. We had to use the one we were supplied, because none of us had a better one of our own which we were able to use.

Once our documentary was put onto disk, we also showed it to the rest of our media class on the projector. All of the responses were very positive, apart from one which said the clarity of the voice over was not very good and it could have been more professional. All of our group agreed with this. We later decided we could have possible found another way to do the voice over, possibly using a genuine recording device which would have made it much more clearer. Using a portable one would have also been abit better for us, as we recorded the voice over off the iMovie programme itself using the built in microphone in the Mac. This meant we got all the background noise of the room we were in at the time, where there were lots of printers and machinery making noise. If we used a portable recording device, we could have gone somewhere much quieter which would have made the voice over sound much more professional.