Q.1 The most popular T.V channel watched was channel 4. Therefore the documentary will be aimed at a Channel 4 audience and will be in the style of a channel 4 documentary. I was intending on creating this documentary for channel 4, so i have started doing some institution research.
Q.2 Documentaries and comedy were the most popular genres if T.V. I intend on making this documentary slightly humerous with a mocking tone,as this is what a channel 4 audience likes to watch.
Q.3 Last documentaries watched were: Blue Planet, Wife Swap,Sex education with Anna Richardson, Breast Feeding, "Threads"-about ethical trade in fashion, Earth wars: Climate change, Who do you think you are?, LAX Files-The Game and Star wars reunited.
Q.4 Genrally the topic was what was liked most about the documentaries. From this i need to ensure that my topic is interesting, humerous, factual and entertaining
Q.5 What wasn't liked about the documentary: No real conclusion, exploited family too much, presenter is annoying, wasn't that factual. From this it is clear that my documentary needs too be factual as well as entertaining and that instead of a presenter a voice over may appeal to the target audience instead.
Q,6 Big Families and Tasty Greek food were the most popular things associated with Greek people. This is good because this is exactly what the documentary will be showing, so i know the documentary will be giving the target audience what they want to watch.
Q.7 From the questionnaire it is clear that the Mum does most of the cooking in the household. This is something i want to explore in my documentary and to find out whether it has always been that way? and will it change?
Q.9 The target audience want to see Greek history-more about the Greek culture, Big humour, Plate smashing, An inside look at Greek living, what makes Greek families different to english families, traditions. All of which i will do my best to include in this documentary. These answers have given me an idea as to what people know about Greek people, hopefully after watching the opening of this documentary they will find out something different.
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Anastasia, it seems like you're inferring a lot from what your audience told you. You seem to be placing a heavy emphasis on the need to be entertaining and factual at the same time. This is all well and good but you need to remember that documentaries are first and foremost factual programmes. While in recent years there has been a move towards factual entertainment programmes, like Wife Swap, Faking It etc., these are a new genre in their own right - known as formatted documentaries. They use the documentary film-making process but impose a particular narrative structure that satisfies the audience's expectations. For example, although Supernanny records real events (documentary) those events are all somewhat contrived and retold using the same structure each week. I'm worried that you may veer a little too far in this direction if you try to focus on entertainment. A good documentary is usually entertaining not through a particular effort on the film-maker's part but because the subject or contributors are so engaging. Of course, the music and editing all help but they can too easily seem jarring if they are used to compensate for the fact that the contributors and the story they are telling is boring. I don't think this will be case with your contributors so try to plan very simply initially. I like the idea of the cooking session but I want you to firstly focus one what you want the audience to learn from the documentary before building sequences. Similarly, when you say you will use a mocking tone, does this mean that you will be mocking the contributors or stereotypical representations of Greek people?
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