Pilot questionnaire analysis
- 1. For my pilot questionnaire, I asked 3 members of my target audience to complete my questionnaire. I asked the basic questions that I needed to know, such as the age group of the person completing the questionnaire. This allowed me to know whether the person completing the questionnaire was a member of my target audience and to find out if my primary audience would want to watch the documentary. I added the question “In what ways could we improve our questionnaire?” and left room for the audience to write what they thought about the questionnaire and therefore I could improve it. One response was that there should be more questions saying “and why?” so they could write a response instead of circling an answer. This means that they felt my questionnaire should have some open-ended questions to make it better. Another response I had was to ask more questions in the questionnaire and another response was to have less questions, initially I did not want too many questions as I found that last year, for my AS work, I had slightly too many and I wanted to keep the audience interested so that they would write meaningful and well thought-out responses. I will change the amount of question and add another one to around the 15-question mark, that would help to give me good audience feedback. I did the pilot questionnaire in order to avoid the mistakes that may have been made and this would make it more professional. I also found that the question I asked about the target audience gave misleading answer choices. As our target audience is teenagers in education, for example, 12-20 this overlaps on two choices and I will make the answer choices more varied. I may also decide to change the sound levels question as this may not make total sense to a non- specialist audience. Furthermore, I will add instructions on the top of our questionnaire to ensure that my target audience know what they have to do and the reasons that they are doing the questionnaire. This would help me to get the most beneficial results.