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Uaudienceattention-grabbingP techniques such as the one below have been successful. Answers to question 3 were: 'Has our documentary been successful at portraying a balanced argument?'

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Uaudienceattention-grabbingP techniques such as the one below have been successful. Answers to question 3 were: 'Has our documentary been successful at portraying a balanced argument?'

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For our project to be complete what was left was to gain feedback from our target audience.
This will help us understand where we have achieved what we have aimed for and where we
haven¶t. This is a significant phase as it will inform us of how to improve. In order to gain
this information, we interviewed four individuals that fell within the different categories of
our target audience. We asked for the opinion different students who could observe our
product from different perspectives.

In the interview, we asked seven questions. The first question, ³c   


 


   
 3 provoked various responses. Some of our interviewees
were left thinking about the serious amount of student debt while others were focused on the
possible alternatives and, as one of them mentions, the existing µpressure to go to university¶.
This tells me that our documentary has been successful at being informative and at attracting
the audience¶s attention to the main topics explored. This also suggests that µaudience-
attention-grabbing¶ techniques such as the one that the image below shows have been
successful.

The answers to our second question which is ³Has the content of our documentary in any way
changed your original perspectives on the topic?3, again supports what we have learned from
the first question in the sense that it has been informative and so hasn¶t changed their original
perspectives but have rather reinforced them. Partially, this is what we wanted to achieve as
we tried to make it easier for our target audience to make a choice, however we also wanted
to spark a question of an individual¶s current believe and so in this aspect our documentary
might have failed to succeed.

Question 3 was ³Has our documentary been successful at portraying a balanced argument?3
and the response was always positive as all interviewees outline the use of interviewees and
cut-away shots that portray different perspectives and so the different sides of the argument
which is exactly the kind of response we were aiming for.

Then the feedback to the fourth question, ³Do you think that our documentary is successful at
using the different codes and conventions of the documentary genre?3 told as that despite not
having all the documentary conventions we have used plenty to clarify the genre. And the
examples we found in the answers included: visual and text based features, cut-aways, voice-
over, varied amount of interviews, but also the HCTV sign giving the idea of a µBBC news
night documentary¶.
Questions 5 and 6 intended to find out what were the strong but also
what were the weak points of the documentary. The strong points, most
interviewees agreed, were our cut-away shots because they included exclusive footage that
was first hand, as shown in the two images above. Also one of our participants thought that
the choice of speakers was the documentary¶s strength. On the other hand weaknesses were
thought to be the lack of introduction and conclusion in the final product and moreover the
quality of the sound.

Overall, the feedback we have received makes me believe that we have achieved to reach
topics and issues that our target audience is interested in. Our use of conventions has also
made the presentation of information more engaging and thus more believable. Furthermore
the selection of speakers has succeeded in making the product a reliable source of knowledge
just like a documentary should be. And as question 6 showed that the participants in our
audience feedback research would all recommend this documentary to others. However, the
few criticisms have taught me that for future projects attention to the structure of the film
should not be neglected.

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