The nature and purposes of research in the creative media industries

Primary research is new research done to answer a specific question, primary research is research you gather yourself instead of looking for research online or in books for you to use this research can be carried out in anyway. I gathered primary research through online surveys, these surveys were used to find out peoples preferences on thing regarding my film. We also did primary research by setting up and recording an interview with someone who was knowledgeable on our subject. But some other ways to gather primary research are questionnaires, photographing events and focus groups. In our project we interviewed our games development teacher because we felt he would know a lot about the subject.

Secondary research is research that has been previously collected and is being re used for your purposes instead of carrying out your own research. We found secondary research by looking up newspaper articles on our subject and finding videos on the subject and using them to find information to use. some examples of secondary research we found was some detailed articles on our subject and some adverts from the time of the event.

Quantitative research is research that is to do with statistics and other numbers such as polls, surveys and questionnaires. We used surveys to make our own quantitative data these surveys were sent to people around our age group to make the results apply heavily to us and our subject another example of quantitative data we gathered was that we looked through advert from the time and picked the one with the most views online.

Qualitative research is research that is about finding detailed and useful information this information is usually about opinions and provides insight into the subject instead of just providing information about it. To produce qualitative information we asked people who around at the time of it happening and people who know a lot about the subject to gain a unique insight into our subject.

There are a lot of data gathering agencies such as the BARB broadcasters audience research board, which collects information on how much shows are watched and on watch channels and at what times this is very useful for researching media and finding out what people like. You also have websites like IMDB which have detailed descriptions and ratings of movies and shows, it also has the entire cast of the films and shows user reviews of the films so you can see what people really think of them.

In our project we did audience research through surveys that were sent to people in our age group as we felt that this audience would be the most likely to watch our video and therefore their opinion on the video would matter the most. These surveys featured questions like gender and their opinion on the subject of our video and if they would watch our video. Some examples of ways to gather this kind of data are through audience awareness and competition.

When looking for production research we considered the viability of our video and whether it had already been done we found that there were a number of small documentary style videos on the subject but nothing major. We also had to consider our technical limitations when recording dialogue because we don't have a soundproof room in our college and a lack of personnel. We found these problems out by looking for a place to record our lines and looking for extra people to be involved in our video.

Audience research is about researching the viewing habits, needs and wants of the audience and the viewers of the content you want to make and to estimate the size of the audience watching a particular show or form of media. Market research is about finding out what a group of people need and what they will enjoy so you know what to make to please that crowd and make a profit. Production research is needed to add to the production being made it focuses on researching what is  needed for the production and what is needed to not only keep the production going but also make it as good as it can be.

Pre Production for documentary.

News Essay

I watched the world news from 7pm 24th may 2016, stories of fighting and war were shown first and given a lot of detail then it was a story about Greece wanting to empty i migrant camp then celebrity scandal news such as the trial of Bill Cosby was shown. In the starting sequence lots of good visuals are shown and loud music is played these are used to grab the watchers attention.

The role of the newsreader is to read out information to the watchers so they both see and hear information, this way the watcher is more interested and better retains the information. I then watched another days' the world news with a middle aged woman called Phillipa Thomas as the newsreader, the role of the newsreader is to introduce the watcher to the stories that are about to be played and interview any guests. As a news reader you need to be confident and well spoken and be very good at keeping up conversations so that you can keep guests talking in interviews.

The term news ordering refers to in news when they set up the more interesting stories in a way that will keep the viewers interested and watching. The list of stories in the broadcast are called the bulletin. The first story to be shown is the lead is it shown first because it will likely be the longest and containing the most information. The other stories are introduced by the news reader after the lead story has finished. The ability to think and act quickly is important in news as things can go wrong also if you are a news reader being able to think and act quickly while interviewing guests is important so that the interview doesn't get boring and so you get all the information out of the guest that you need. Here is an example of a recent interview in the news.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8045869.stm.

A slow news day is a day where there isn't much happening or that has happened for the news to report on. The last story in a news program is called the "and finally" and it is usually a happy story for the news to end on and cheer up the viewer after they have had to listen to a lot of sad stories. News values refers to how much coverage is given to a news story and how much interest is taken in it by the viewer,

Frequency is an important news value which means the less frequent a news story is and the more convenient it is to cover will decide how much it is shown in the news, stories that are ongoing for a very long time are rarely given a lot of coverage because people will have already heard about it and wont be interested.
Many local news channels try to have stories based around their local area for easy coverage and to appeal to the majority of the people around them also if a news network is near to a sudden news story they will get first coverage and therefore will be the first place people go to for information on that event. for example if a major newsworthy event happened in London the first news station to get coverage would likely be the BBC because they are stationed in London.
negativity: Bad news is more shocking than good news and will receive more views and more coverage, for example if you were told that someone was alive and well you wouldn't be very interested however if someone important had died you would want to find out who and watch the news. Such as when Nelson Mandela passed away in 2013 this was given a lot of news coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520.

unexpectedness is an important value to consider the more expected and predictable a news event is the less viewers will watch it and less coverage it will get from the news stations one example of this is terror attacks, they always happen without warning and are often covered as soon as possible by news stations. Events that are likely to continue over a number of days will get a lot of coverage from the news because these events will make viewers watch the news for more than one day at a time these would include news stories about wars and conflicts when at war we often see news stories about soldiers who have been killed or injured in fighting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17282903 especially this story because it was the biggest loss of life for the uk in a single attack since 2006.

Stories that are simple are useful for news networks, a story being easy to explain makes their job a lot easier and gets more viewers watching as the viewing isn't as heavy going. stories such as animals escaping or a murder happening can be short but shocking. The news can also use stories about interesting people with problems in their lives or just vibrant personalities such as a story i saw once about a young boy who was death but could see objects by clicking his tongue and having the sound bounce off of objects like a bat does using sonar this story is simple to explain but also unique and interesting. one story that covered many of these values was the 9/11 terror attacks, one of the most if not the most devastating and shocking news stories to ever be broadcast its hard to believe even a single person wasn't watching the news when it happened.

Bias
News editors can choose not to have stories or particular moments from a story featured on TV this is biased as it means the news can choose to do news stories that reflect poorly on the news station themselves or the editors. Newspaper editors can also be biased because people tend to consider the stories more towards the front of the paper to be more important than stories at the back so the editors can use this to bury stories that they feel could reflect poorly on them or anything they like. Headlines are another way of attaching bias to a story because headlines are always in bold and are often the first thing read by the reader and sometimes the only thing read by reader, writers can use these to mislead the reader about stories and sometimes outright lie. there is also bias through photos an editor can have an normal story about a person but have an embarrassing photo of them with it to make them look bad. News can also be biased by a news reader as watcher can be influenced by the tone made by a news reader when reading out a story.

research for documentary

This is useful because it shows just how much of an effect the crash had on the industry as a whole and just how much the damage the crash caused in such a little amount of time. facts and figures often grab attention of the viewer while also providing very important imformation.

This image is interesting because it shows the attitude of the media towards the events at the time. It is useful because it shows exactly what the media thought of the event and describes it in a lot of detail.

This image is very useful because it shows the exact date the games were buried and all of the information on the event.

This commercial i found from the time was very useful because it showed the attitude towards games and how bad the games themselves were at the time.

Documentary ideas 3mw

Ideas

•        Bug documentary
•         The rise of mobile games
•         The video game crash of 1983
•         The psychology of criminal minds

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My favourite of my ideas is the video game crash of 1983 this documentary would detail the events that led up and caused the video game crash and the effect it had it had on the industry. This documentary would be an expository style because it would feature a disembodied voice over accompanying images and videos. Providing facts and information I like expository documentaries because the main objective of them is transparent direct presentation of information. My intent making this documentary would be to educate people on an interesting subject. I will not need to travel anywhere for this documentary although i will need access to the classroom which would make it quite easy to make, the only crew I will need is me although i may think about getting a different person to do the voice over. I may also provide interviews from people who are knowledgeable on the subject and were alive at the time after getting feedback from the class.

3 Minute wonders

I liked this 3 minute wonder because it was funny and interesting to hear someones unusual opinion on nature and the animal kingdom. Also Karl Pilkington's character makes what should be quite upsetting subjects funny and uplifting.


I liked this 3 minute wonder because it showed lots of peoples different opinions on quite a strange subject. Also i like the style of just having a bunch of people in a room sharing their opinions.


I liked this 3 minute wonder because it attempts to really show the struggle of a child in surgery such as when it shows the legal document the boy had to sign and the messiness of his handwriting shows how young he his and how someone his age shouldn't have to go through this.

Documentary mini task

Documentary mini task

A documentary is a film or television programme that provides a factual report on a particular subject. I believe a documentary is a film that shows information in different ways and the main goal of a document.

Expository documentaries speak directly to viewer and usually use number of clips with a voice over explaining them like in the documentary march of the penguins. This features clips following the lives of penguins and a near constant narration to keep the viewer informed on everything.

In interactive documentaries the film maker interacts directly with the subjects and interviews and asks them questions to try and get more information out of them than what would normally people gotten through other styles of documentary, an example of this kind of documentary is the short video underground bare knuckle boxing in UK by VICE this is an interactice documentary because it features a man talking to the people in the documentary to try and get information from them.

In reflexive documentaries the filmmaker acknowledges their presence and provides a narration to help give extra information to the viewer, an example of this is the documentary Koyaanisqatsi.

Performative documentaries rely heavily on actors re-enacting scenes to show the information that the documentary wants to convey. A good example for this is the performative documentary the act of killing which shows the real people re-enacting what they did. These documentaries are sometimes criticized for dramatization in the performances made to make the documentary more interesting but also in turn making them less real.

Observational documentary's, have a lot of realism because the film maker doesn't get involved with what they are filming and whats in the film unfolds exactly how it normally would. Some observational documentaries don't feature anything except for raw footage on the films subject such as the war documentary armadillo.

In conclusion I believe as a film maker creating documentaries you should strive for fact and realism at all cost to prevent sending misinformation to the viewer, if you want to make a point in a documentary you need to show factual evidence to back it up or the entire film is pointless.