Audience Feedback

From our feedback we have learnt that people thought that the documentary was entertaining as in response to our question ‘on a scale of 1-5 how entertaining do you think our documentary was?’ one response was, ‘5 because you… gave a good overview of everything like you covered a lot of aspects’ and ‘5 because I think it was really entertaining, cause it was informative but funny’ and ‘4 for entertainment, it had some funny moments in’. The responses linked with our target audience of 16 – 35 and our general view of the documentary being more informal that formal it’s good that the audience relate to this and see the documentary in a serious and fun way.

When asked the question about the professionalism of the documentary in comparison to documentaries seen on TV, the responses were generally a 3 or 4 on the scale of 1-5 as most said it was good as an amateur level but probably not yet at the level of a TV professional documentary.  Another person said a 4 because everyone was professional in it, like it was produced professionally just because of obvious things like you don’t have the same studio and experience as normal documentary makers.’

In response to ‘on a scale of 1 -5, how informative do you think our documentary is?’ one responded with it was ‘very informative although it was a bit general like it just went with the whole tattoo thing, it didn’t really specify one particular part of tattoos.’ And another said: ‘4 and a half because all the information on tattoos was really good and it gave me like a good range of views’ but then goes onto say how she would of liked to have heard more about a certain part which was in the documentary. These opinions are helpful, although the clip they saw was only of the first five minutes and so it is hard for them to give a full view on the content which would appear in the rest of the documentary.

On the subject of the technicalities of our documentary, a lot rated it at about a 4 saying they like the music and how ‘tattoos are normally associated with that genre’ but how there were some faults in the editing. 

When asked to comment on how enticing the opening sequence was in terms of making them want to carry on and watch more, one responded with ‘yeah because I really liked the music, the black and white theme and the drawing on the back because that is what a tattoo is, like drawing on somebody’s skin and I thought that was quite an interesting and different way to look at it because it just brought tattoos down to their essence, like what they actually are.’

Overall we gained good feedback that gave us both good points and bad points which let us know how we could improve on it.