1. Briony McKee
Evaluation Question 3: What
have you learned from your
audience feedback?
The results of an after-production questionnaire
given out during the viewing of all 3 final
products, in all we asked 14 people to fill out
our questionnaire, in order to see if it has
fulfilled its intentions and is successful.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how well would you say the
documentary held your attention?
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Pleasing results from our audience, all rated above halfway, highlighting that our
documentary was in some manner interesting. Having the majority answers responding
with 8/10, makes our documentary strong even though I believe featuring more live sport
footage similar to the boxing training session etc, might make the documentary more
interesting as an improvement. Our topic is one that most people get uninterested quite
quickly as it is constantly in the media, and is always advising people to change their
lifestyle, which is the main focus of our documentary, hence getting an 8 was pleasing due
to this issue surrounding the topic.

3. Did you find that the sound levels were balanced and
even?
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When we exported our documentary we did check thoroughly that our sound levels were
consistent, however having listened to the documentary repeatedly may have mislead our
judgement as 2 replies noticed an unbalance in the sound levels. However the majority of
the answers did sense that the sound levels were even throughout, supplying us with the
evidence that if the sound levels do change, it is only in the slightest and hardly noticeable.
As an improvement we would go back and listen once again carefully to the sound levels, to
ensure no changes occur.

4. Did you find that you could relate to any of the
documentary?
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This is evidence that our research we added to our documentary was relevant as we
intended for the audience to understand and relate to this information. Also with our topic
being constantly in the media, highlights how their existing knowledge has aided them in
relating to this topic.

5. Were the colours managed effectively?
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This effectiveness of the colours being managed shows how we used appropriate colours,
not anything too dark or light that would strain the audiences eyes, as that would
discourage them to focus on the documentary putting them off the documentary on the
whole. We did on a couple of shots add colour correction in order to improve the look of
the shot and keep the balance of colours consistent throughout, as a couple were quite dark
when compared to other shots used in the documentary, it did bring our green more in
some shots, which is a connotation of having a healthy lifestyle.

6. Do you think that the tone of the documentary is
sophisticated?
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Majority of the viewers believed that the tone was sophisticated throughout , adding a tone
of professionalism to our documentary which was what we were aiming for in production.
Whereas 2 people disagreed replying that our tone was not sophisticated, suggesting they
thought is lacked professionalism in places, that it had more of a colloquial tone to it, which
was opposite to what we intended. As an improvement we would go back and explore the
areas which could suggest a lack of professional/sophisticated manner and correct this in
order to completely achieve our initial aims.

7. Do you think that the shots for the documentary were
framed appropriately?
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This was a key question that we wanted feedback from, as we focused heavily on
maintaining appropriate camera framing during the production. It is shown that this heavy
focus was worthwhile as all replies agreed that all shots were framed suitable for the
documentary, adding more professionalism to our documentary.

8. Do you think that the expert interview extracts were
informative and useful?
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Evident through the positive answers that our selected formal interviewee provided the
documentary with suitable information, helping to increase the knowledge of the viewers
on this topic, as this was the intention. We did have trouble trying to arrange a formal
interview with an expert in the field of fitness and lifestyle, but in the end we found and
featured the college’s sports co-ordinator whom had knowledge we needed, this proved to
be a wise move as he provided information that was both useful and informative to the
audience.

9. On a scale of 1-10, how well would you say the double
page spread article has been put together?
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Once more when rating one of our final products the most popular answer came to be 8/10,
a high result for our double spread. Also we scored above half marks similarly to the
documentary. This highlights that people were interested in the article, it looked
professional and was coherent to the documentary in some sort of manner, this is pleasing.
To improve the layout, I would personally suggest putting more suitable colours on the
page, to make it look slightly more interesting or to make the title stand out more, to
establish the article better (even though it can be said the main picture does this).

10. Do you think that we used and developed common
conventions of double page spreads?
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This highlights how our analysis of existing double page spreads has been vital for us to
produce a professional looking one, which all answers could recognise the conventions
apparent. This is pleasing as it suggests that our article could fit into the Radio Times as it
shares the same conventions, making it recognisable for the reader which results in
efficiency of article to advertise our documentary.

11. Stylistically, do you find that the use of colours is
appropriate?
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One of our mixed replies off the audience, which hones in on a particular weakness in our
double page spread, colour. Even though more people believed it was appropriate it still
raises up the issue, we intended to use colours which hold no single gender connotations
due to our target audience being both genders, but as an improvement would be to use
either more variety of these colours or increase the use of the colours used already to help
make it look more interesting to read, as a lot of black and white can be a turn-off when
reading a TV listings article.

12. On a scale of 1-10, how well would you say the radio
trailer has been put together?
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Finally our radio trailer another final product holds similar ratings to the previous final
products, with all ratings above halfway mark, and 8/10 being our most popular reply. This
highlights how the radio trailer overall is professional, interesting to listen to and is coherent
to the documentary, one of our many aims. As an improvement I might use a different main
voiceover, as it gives more of a variety to the radio trailer and maybe find more quick, short
extracts from the documentary (but we had trouble with this during the production hence
the shortage of extracts in the trailer).

13. Do you feel inclined or persuaded to watch the
documentary after listening to the radio trailer?
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This is pleasing to see the ancillary tasks succeeding in the initial intention to advertise the
documentary which clearly seen through all replies believing this trailer did. This was
probably due to the music being of the same genre, as it provides a link to the
documentary. The music was upbeat and got your attention quickly as it was different to
most others used. Also isolating the details of the documentary and changing the voice at
the end made it more memorable for the audience. Even though we could of used more
extracts, the ones used in the montage are persuasive as they are isolated and quick.

14. Do you think there are enough extracts used in the
trailer?
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This enlightens my previous opinion of adding more extracts for an improvement, as two
people seem to agree with my opinion, even though the majority do not believe we needed
more. During the production of the trailer we found it difficult to find more quick, short
debatable statements we could add, that would spark interest in the listener so used only
the ones we could find, which most people agreed was enough.

15. Do you believe that the radio trailer uses common
conventions?
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Once more highlights how our analysis of existing radio trailers to identify conventions has
provided us with knowledge to make ours professional, is proven to be correct. This shows
how the audience will recognise it as a trailer for a documentary or programme and will be
inclined to listen to find out more about the product being advertised. It also shows how it
could fit into BBC Radio Five Live, as it is suggestive in saying it is professional.

16. Overall:
These results have provided us with an insight to how the audience would view our
products, whether they were successful and professional and raise any problems that
might have occurred, which would leave us to evaluate and suggest improvements.
Overall the feedback has been majority positive with only slight negative points stated,
which at times was only small details. This shows how doing research and planning has
provided the knowledge to produce these products, with studying the conventions of
each product and audience research. This has lead to these positive results, which by
placing them in graphs has visually helped to see results in correlation with each other,
highlighting that all our final products were rated an 8/10, which is a strong result we
are pleased with.