Audience/documentary Research

We have decided to make our documentary viewable to kids and teachers. We have thought up of questions to ask them both, so that we can get teachers and kids' opinions on this. It's going to be based on education and things in general.

For the questions for pir audience research, we have decided that our target audience are the children as that is who the documentary is trying to get at.

Questions for audience (kids):

• Do you tthink a documentary about new media (in general + education) is a good idea?



• Do you think 5/5:30 is a suitable time for it to be shown?



• Would you want to watch it?



• Would it be eductaional enough?



• What would you like to see in the documentary?



• Do you think your parents would want to watch it?

Questions for audience (adults):

• Would anyone be interested in watching it?

Parents and children would more likely watch it, teenagers/older generation less likely

• Do you think parents would watch it?

Yes, definitly

• Have you seen anything like this before that you thought was good?

No

• If it was shown at about 5, do you think that's a good time?

Yes, gives the children time to come back from college

• Do you think anything else should be included?

More info on the smartboards

Questions to be included in documentary

Questions for teachers:

• How do you introduce new media to the children?



• What media do you use?



• Do you have any problems with it, what works well?



• What's your favourite media to use? Why?



• How do you use media to deal with behaviour?



• How do you use media to deal with learning difficulties eg. dyslexia?

Questions for kids:

Do you use media everyday if so what kind?

Most of them answered computer

Do you use new media at school and at home?

Both

What do you like about it?

Playing on games

What don't you like about it?

Freezes sometimes

When did you start using new media?

Reception, age 4


We also found out that the children would have a go at playing a variety of educational games based on a subject if they were being advertised by their teacher/on tv. There was a game they were all quite interested in called Club Penguin. It was made public October 24th 2005 and is for 6-14 yrs. Players create their own penguin avatars and then start playing games in the created visual world. It was developed by New Horizon and in August 2007 was purchased by the Walt Disney Company.


Aleks Krotoski explores the ways in what technology can give us and the increase of blogs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/03/100311_virtual_revolution_how_and_when.shtml