Monday 13 October 2014

D.B: Questionnaire Reflection

We needed to come up with a questionnaire that we could send to a control group in order to test our concept ideas. From all the people we sent the questionnaire to we got 43 responses in total. When coming up with the questions we decided to come up with 3 each, these are mine:

> Q) Which aspect of mental illness do you believe are relevant to youth today?      

A) The most common answers we were given were: depression; eating disorders; body dismorphia from unrealistic media and societal expectations; anxiety disorders; paranoia. This was really helpful because it made us realise how interested people our age were in the portrayal of mental illness with youth. There was a consens as well on the fact that mental illness is not restricted when it comes to young people simply because of their age and a few people mentioned that they wanted to see a portrayal of a mental illness that wasn't very commonly presented in the media. 

We wanted this question to be open so that people could give several answers with possible explanations with their answers. We want our video to have a deeper meaning so that it can educate and inform audiences on issues that they may not have considered before. We wanted to portray Bipolar disorder because it is an issue me and Laurel are interested in and have been affected by. A couple people mentioned bipolar disorder in our questionnaire but it wasn't very common and this proved to us how important it was that we portray this mental illness in order to spread its awareness. 
  > Q) What age range do you associate with dance music

A) The most common answer given was the age range 16-25. Everyone gave the answers for a youthful person to feature in the video.

We had predicted that this would the results especially because we gave our questionnaire to people between the age 17-19 and they would go for an age range that they could relate to.

> Q) What setting do you expect this video to be shot in?
- Early in the morning, when it's sunny
- Early in the morning, when it's raining
- At night
- During the day, when it's sunny
- During the day, when it's raining

 A) 20 people said that they think it should be shot early in the morning, when it's sunny and 18 people said that they thought we should shoot during the day, when it's sunny. 


We wanted to include some closed questions in our questionnaire because we were unsure the type of conditions we should shoot in. We were not sure how we wanted the weather to be when shooting because the rain would demonstrate his sadness and the sun would connote his joy - the pathetic fallacy.
We were cross between during the day and early in the morning when it's sunny because of timings for shooting and whether we wanted to shoot the sun rising. We have realised that shooting during a sunrise is very difficult because the lighting changes so suddenly and is something we cannot control. Seeing as people agree that both are almost equally relevant we will film during the day rather than early in the morning.

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