Questionnaire Survey Results

Several of our surveys found that students aged 17-18 watched documentaries on BBC Three, another reason as to why we chose to broadcast our documentary on BBC Three as students are our target audience and will be watching.

We targeted both males and females, and generally their results correlated closely to each other, and because students are both male and female, we will be applying our documentary to both genders.

Students at college will be finding this time most stressful, so we wanted to focus mainly on college students rather than secondary school who are aged 16 and below. All of our surveys targeted college students who are aged 16-18 so the results we found were helpful in seeing what they wanted to see in a documentary.

Most students who filled out the questionnaire tended to watch documentaries a fair amount, whether it was just one a month or one a week, they have still experienced watching documentaries and know what they like, so their results that they returned were very useful to us.

It was also a common result from our questionnaires that students wanted to watch a documentary that would inform or educate them about something. This is suitable as our documentary will be entirely educational and informative as it is teaching the audience about exams and giving statistics and expert interviews about if exams are really fair.

When we asked what people would want to see in a documentary and gave them the choice to write freely, again, many wanted information about the topic of the documentary and they wanted to learn something new, and gain a new insight from seeing differing arguments. This response was helpful as we know that we need to include facts and statistics to inform and teach our audience new things about exams that they may not have previously known.

One thing which we found particularly interesting and we thought would help in the creation and argument of our documentary was the response to the question ‘do you think exams are a fair representation of intelligence?’ which is the question our whole documentary is based on. The response to this question (disregarding all other questions in the survey) returned the same sort of reply, which was no, students do not think that exams are a fair representation of intelligence. This helps us massively, as we know that we need to attract the students who are our target audience and we need to get their point of view across so that they can relate. Therefore, this response is critical in the argument and will help our documentary apply well to the audience.