3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Megan Waite & Kira Brookfield

Feedback

As a group, we displayed our documentary to a group of people within the age category which we aimed it towards. As well as the secondary audience being Teenagers themselves. Quoting from random questions which we asked our audience, of about 10 people, here were their responses…

Questionnaire to primary audience: Older Generation

Q1: How did the documentary make you feel?Q2: Do you feel that it has made an impact on what you think about teenagers?Q3: How far do you agree with this documentary?Q4: Did it full-fill your expectations?

Responses… Q1

7/10 people agreed that it made them re-think back on times where they had stereotyped a younger person for the way they dressed/looked etc. And they said that they felt “horrible for assuming the worst”.3/10 people felt neutral, and that it didn’t have a large effect on their emotions. They felt the same before and after watching the documentary.

Q2

7/10 people said that they agree that they must evaluate a teenager thoroughly before making assumptions as it causes a negative effect. Which the documentary showed them that teenagers are not what they seem and that you shouldn’t judge upon 1 characteristic.3/10 people felt that they don’t stereotype anyway, but they said if they were that type of person to make assumptions then they agrees that the documentary was enough to make them realise.

Q3

All the viewers agreed with the message that the documentary was trying to portray, and the 3/10 felt it was moving enough to change a persons view if they had a different idea of the situation which they didn’t in the first place.

Q4

Again, they all agreed as they felt it contained the right amount of information and told a “very good” story from the likes of Kira. They wanted eye catching and interesting and these were two aspects which were “definitely present” in the documentary. This suggest it meets our intentions perfectly and that they are full filled to our greatest potential.

Negative Feedback

They wanted to watch part 2 and they felt 5 minutes “wasn’t long enough”. But if the documentary was a real life product it would obviously be longer and contain more with a longer and more bulked story line. But unfortunately it’s limit was 5 minutes as stated by the brief. Also they wanted more story from Kira’s point of view and they felt her story was “cut short” due to the small amount of time allowed.

Overall…

We were pleased that our primary target audience enjoyed it, as well as the secondary who felt it was “just what people needed to hear in order to male a difference”. The negative feedback was vague as it was about time, and that they wanted to watch it as a full documentary. But for future reference, we know to develop further and to add as much possible without overloading the documentary in such a short space of time. Getting straight to the point quicker will be a future goal as a group.