Research For Documentary - Primary: Margret Ross Questions

Margret Ross interview questions

· Tell me about how and when you lost your sight?

· How did you adjust to losing your sight?

· Are you happy with the amount of help & support you have received?

· What happens at your hospital check ups?

· How has it affected your daily life?

· How have you changed your surroundings to accommodate your loss of sight?

· Do you miss anything about being able to see? (if appropriate)

· What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

· Do you have any gadgets or technologies to make your life easier?

· What would make your life better/easier?

· Do you think that a guide dog would be beneficial?

· Are there any benefits to losing your sight?

· (Talking books?)

Some of these questions are closed questions, however we thought it would be necessary to gain the most information as possible.  

Research For Documentary - Primary: Emailing Penny Williams

As part of our research, we have been emailing Penny William's from a guide dogs association and we are currently discussing a suitable location for the interview.

Moreover, after looking on the website we used google maps to discover more about guide dogs and where the guide dogs association was located so that we would be able to travel there to film some footage of the dogs and possibly film the interview.

Formal Proposal For Documentary

Formal Proposal For Documentary

Topic: Senses – Sight, sound, taste, touch and smell.

Type of documentary: Mixed.

Channel and scheduling: Channel 4 at 9.00pm.

Target audience: Young adults 16 – 25.

Primary research: An interview of Margret Ross (Jess’s Nan), she blind and deaf. Interview with someone at a perfume counter. Interview with Margret Wright (Jess’s other Nan)she cannot smell. Interview with Lennie and lyn who train guide dogs/puppies. Interview and owner of a restaurant in the restaurant. Blind fold game and interview afterwards.

Secondary research: Statistics of questionnaire. Pictures of headphones, guide dogs, different perfumes, food etc. Television show. Music. Newspaper articles. Zoom close up of senses.

Narrative structure: Non-linear, circular (How much do you depend on your senses? Beginning and end.) Multiple strand.

Outline of content:
Intro : Title screen, Questions on screen whilst zooming into the sense.

Smell : Interview with Margaret Wright. Interview with a woman/man at a perfume counter. Talk about most favourite smell and the worst smell.

Taste: Interview with a restaurant owner in the restaurant about the hottest curries etc.. Chilli tasting.

Sound: Interview Margaret Ross. Information on hearing dogs. Information on how headphones can damage your hearing.

Sight: Interview with Lennie and Lyn. Interview with Margaret Ross. Close up of someone putting their contacts in. Go to the opticians and do cuts of all the glasses. Film guide dogs being trained?

Touch: Blind fold touch test. Interview people who have took part in the bind fold touch test. Images of sensory gardens.

Resource requirements: Dictaphone, Computer – Photoshop, word, adobe, excel, Camera and tripod.

Brainstorm of Content for our Documentary.

Above is a copy of the brainstorm we made for the content of our documentary. We have listed things we may include in our documentary about sense (including interviews and music).

Target Audience Research

Are you male or female?

Male - 8

Female - 22

This shows that our results may be gender biased. We will take this into account when planning out documentary as this may affect something like the colours we use or the gender of the voice over. 

How old are you?

What channel do you watch the most out of the following?

This tells us that the most popular channel is channel 4. This may affect which channel we decide to put our documentary on. 

What time are you most likely to watch a documentary?

 

These results may have been affected by the age of the people we questioned. As a large amount of them were between 16 - 25 they are less likely to watch TV in the daytime. However, if we'd had asked people such as housewives and the unemployed then the answers may have been different. We will take this into account when making our final decisions. 

How often do you watch documentaries?

What is your favorite colour?

This will help us to decide on the colour scheme we use in the documentary.

What is your favorite genre of music?

 

Do you wear glasses?

Yes - 12

No - 18

If no, have you ever been to the optitions?

14 said yes. 

Have you ever had any problems with your hearing?

Yes - 5

No - 15

If yes, what?

• Selective hearing
• Tinnitus
• General problems
• Labyrinthitis
• Ear infections
• Half death

How loud do you have your music?

 

Questions like this will come in handy as we will be able to use these statistics in our documentary.

 

How spicy do you like your food?

 

What is your favorite smell?

What is your least favorite smell?

 

Have you ever broken a bone?

Yes - 15

No - 15

What sense could you live without?

What is your favorite sense?

Initial Plans

Topic: Senses

Name: NONsence.

Channel: Channel 4 

We decided to show our documentary on Channel 4 as this channel is aimed at young adults - which is our target audience. 

Time: 9 PM

We chose 9 PM as it is usually the watershed time. This means that things more appropiate to our target audience can be shown. 

Target audience: Young adults (of both genders)

Brainstorming

As a class we brainstormed ideas for what we could do our documentaries about. Above is a copy of what we came up with.