Tuesday

In preparation for gaining audience feedback for my production, I wrote up a Google Forms survey. I decided that it would be best to create 2 separate Google forms – one for the audience of the end of year show, and one for when I send out my documentary on my social media for friends and family to give feedback on. The reason I decided to make 2 is because firstly, the audience of the end of year show will only be seeing the first 3 and a half minutes of the production and secondly, due to the nature of how long the show is and the amount of different films they’re going to be watching, there needs to be less questions. I understand that answering lots of surveys might be quite a tedious task, so to help them, I will be very concise with my questions and limit the amount for them to respond too – this is all whilst still understanding that I need feedback, so not being too lenient either!

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To begin, the first 2 questions give a very basic summary of the person responding to the survey – I ask for their age range and gender. This helps me to understand how accurate my target audience aim was, and understanding whether I could have done a better job at targeting the video towards them. Furthermore, for those not a part of my target audience, it will be interesting to see whether they found it engaging or not, as I didn’t intend on producing for them.

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The next question is a very simple, on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the least and 5 being the most, how much did you enjoy the documentary. Though I understand they have only watched the first section of the documentary, whether they enjoyed this section or not determines whether I’ve effectively been able to engage and grab the attention of my audience. Additionally, I have also attached the video to the top of the Google forms so that if they would like to, they can watch the full thing.

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This question is then followed up by asking why. Asking why is important as it gives the respondent to explain why they gave the answer they did. Knowing why gives me more knowledge and therefore a better chance at learning and improving my skills for future productions.

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I then ask where they feel more informed about misophonia after watching, and why this might be the case. The introduction is based around explaining what misophonia is, so it’s important for me to be able to evaluate whether I have or haven’t been able to effectively explain what it is. Explaining what it is, is very important because misophonia is not very well known about it, and when thinking about the role I have in appropriately representing thousands of people, it’s definitely an important factor.

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To compliment this question, I then ask whether the film scene at the start is a worthy part of the production. The film scene is very different and has a very different feel to the documentary, so it will be interesting to know whether the audience thinks it works well and whether it does its job of explaining misophonia.

To round this survey off, I then add an opportunity for the respondents to make any further comments they would like to. I find it’s important to do this because it means that if they want to say anything more, they can. If there’s a chance to gain more feedback, then I’ll take it!

 

 

After completing this google forms survey, I then went on to produce the second one. All questions I had added onto the previous survey would be relevant for this survey too, so I copied all of these over to this one too. All the additional questions I have added in this survey take a little more time, and could definitely be taken as far more in-depth, which makes sense, given the circumstance that I am giving them the survey – this one can be done in their spare time whenever they’d like.

The first additional question is, ‘what would you change/improve’. I then proceed to give an example of ‘is there anything you would have liked to have seen?’, as this may help guide those who are not sure how to answer (particularly as its quite an open question that you have to think about). I should get some really useful responses here as they should improve my understanding for what the target audience wants to see, and how I might have done it.

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The second additional question asks whether ‘think the music used is appropriate and complimentary to what’s going on?’. I decided to ask this because it shows whether I have effectively been able to choose music that suits the theme of my documentary. I found this quite a difficult process during the post-production stage, so I’m interested to hear about this.

The third additional question asks whether they had an emotional response to the documentary, and if so, what part. Whether this is intensity from scene 1 or sorrowfulness from Erin’s personal speech, I love to make films because of the emotional responses I can induce on an audience member. This is a really important part of the filmmaking process, as if they feel some sort of emotion from watching my media product, it shows that they have been engaged enough to actively participate in watching it.

 

Throughout making these surveys I have thought carefully about the feedback I want to hear, and condensing them into a limited number of questions, easy for all to understand and respond to. I have tried to be as concise as possible. To view these two forms, click the links below.

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End of Year Show feedback form - https://forms.gle/6874tNGiWVPANqD39

Online social media feedback form -  https://forms.gle/Yk7Fub91CXYEz69z9

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Later this day, due to some people already being ready to hand in their FMP videos, I thought it would be best to take their videos in and get them ready in the project files inside of Premiere Pro. This also gave me the chance to have a bit or practice going to other peoples computers and taking the files off. This was useful for finding the most effective way to take the files off and boosting my confidence levels too.