Survey Results

When asked if people care about Scottish Independence the result shows that  65% of the people we asked say that they care about the Scottish independence, whereas the other 35% of people think that the Scottish independence isn't an important thing in their lifes.

The question asked shows that 60% of the people asked say that they have family in Scotland. 33% say they don't have family there and the remaining 7% answered saying that they are unsure of Family living there.

The third question 'Are they voting?' was Answered by the public with a total of 75% people saying that they were not voting. the other 25% answered with a yes.

Question four 'do you think sixteen year olds should vote?' was answered with 60% saying that  16 year olds should not vote. The other 40% however think that the 16 year olds should do.

The last question asked was Answered with 45% of people saying yes to scotland having independence, 30% of people saying no to their independence and 25% saying they were not sure about whether they should or not.

Production Research

Production Research

Call sheet

A call sheet is a sheet of paper given to cast and crew of film production companies to show the schedule of things going on today, who's playing who in the production and how to contact the people if they do not arrive. The Call sheet gets issued to the production members at the beginning of the week because they can be changed quite a bit throughout the week.

Media Recce

A Recce is a pre-filming visit to a location to see if it suitable for shooting there. It is closely related to  location scouting. The term 'recce' is also used in Radio and Television production.

Risk Assessment
A risk assessment is Managing and controlling the risks in the workplace. for doing this you need to make sure you understand what could be the risks in the working area and how you can prevent them. It is required by the law that it must be carried out.

Primary and Qualitative Research

Primary and Qualitative Research

In our lesson we learnt about Research on factual documentaries. I learnt many various research techniques mainly focusing on primary and qualitative research. In the class we were shown a range of tv documentaries.

Techniques

• Interviews - An interview is a talk with an individual, asking them questions about the said theme of your work. Interviews come with a series of questions that vary from being simple questions to in depth questions. Eg; Interviewers such as Jeremy Paxman use very difficult questions to knock their interviewee's out of concentration, and he often repeats his questions multiple times so that he can hopefully get the answer he was hoping for, that often makes people uncomfortable.

After watching an interview from Jeremy Paxman, I discovered that he uses a Semi structured method. In his interviews, Jeremy tends to interrupt the people he interviews so that he can demand an answer from the person. Paxman corners his interviewee's and manages to annoy the people he talks to. He's a demanding man that starts off with a simple approach. When he asks a question he repeats it constantly to get the answer he wants.

• Questionnaires - A Questionnaire is a sheet or multiple sheets of paper with various questions on. this is pretty much what interviewers use. The questions are usually targeted at certain audiences and are also in various difficulties. sometimes some questions can even be very difficult to answer. Some of the questions can require simple 'yes or no' answers, whereas others require paragraphs of an answer.

After watching 'The Apprentice' we find that they give direct questions to their clients, they judge the people and their business plans. they give honest opinions and they get to the point. since they are extremely professional they use statistics often. they prefer to dismiss CV's and like to get Too tense and make the clients nervous and catch all small reactions.

• Observations - An observation is where you have a specific topic that needs researching and you observe and take notes of what you have learned. for Example  in our lesson we saw a Louis Theroux Documentary on America's most hated family.
  

After watching Louis Theroux interview america's most hated family, I'd say that Louis uses a structured method. he already knows what he's going to ask. Louis also has a subtle interviewing style. From watching the video I saw that Louis didnt seem very comfortable when he interviewed the family.