What To Do For Documentary Assignment

RESEARCH DIARY- Secondary Qualitative Data 

On your topic, target audience (helps prove who your audience is), how to make a documentary look at:

• 2 books
• 2 websites
• 2 magazines/newspapers or journals

How To Set Out Your Diary:

• BOOKS- get a "quote" from a book (write the page number and author name underneath it)
• Summarise what the quote says/means in your own words
• How useful was this research? what did it tell you about? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Was it easy to understand? Will it help inform your documentary? 
• Find a section from a book that is useful to you and summarise it into a minimum of 3 or 4 bullet points. 
• How useful was the summary? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Easy to understand? Will it help inform your documentary? 

• WEBSITES- Academic or Relevant. NO WIKIPEDIA -it can be useful for a basis, scroll down to the bottom where there are references for REAL research
• Find a section of a website that is useful to you- summarise it into 3 or 4 bullet points. 
• How useful was this research? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Was it easy to understand? Will it inform your documentary? 
• Find a "quote" from a website (link of website, title of page and the author of the site)
• Summarise what the quote means in your own words. 
• How useful was the research? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Was it easy to understand? Will it inform your documentary?

• MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS/ JOURNALS- find a "quote" (link to the name of the author, title of magazine/paper/journal and the date it was published)
• Summarise the quote in your own words
• How useful was this research? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Was it easy to understand? Will it help inform your documentary? 
• Research a section of the article and summarise it into 3/4 bullet points
• How useful was the research? Was it relevant? Was it biased? Was it easy to understand? Will it inform your documentary? 

ANALYSE OTHER DOCUMENTARIES FOR THE THINGS THEY USE TO HOOK THEIR AUDIENCE.

DO SOME PRIMARY RESEARCH: INTERVIEWS OR QUESTIONNAIRES.

Possible Interview/Questionnaire Questions:

• If they watch Documentaries
• NO: Why don't they watch them
• YES: What they watch
• What are they interested in
• Ask about my topic- what do they know about? What is their opinion on that? 

TREATMENT

What is in it and how to set it out:

• Who the Target Audience is (be specific, age, gender, interests, psychographics -MUSIC, ARTWORK, INTERVIEWING LOTS OF PEOPLE, LANGUAGE, STYLE AND GRAPHICS.)
• How you are going to target your audience. -teenagers,

• How will your documentary be better than other documentaries for young people. -ideas, jazzy, different, styling.

• Plot/Outline- explain the layout and format of your documentary (Participatory/Observational) 
• What will your audience learn? -explain some facts and research from my topic (refer back to your Research Diary)