Jake Hashdi's research summary - Jake has made use of the production companies and their contact departments. He obtained a contact number for Clerkenwell films, the producers of 'Misfits'. He proceeded to call them and inquire about the process of creating a new show. The information is currently pending due to time restraints of the producers, but they have said they will get back to him soon with the relevant information. He planned his questions out in preparation for the call, but was ultimately going to allow the conversation to be open so allow more answers to be obtained and more questions to be developed.
Jake's secondary production research consisted of researching into the producers of 'Top Boy', 'The Inbetweeners' and 'Beaver Falls'. This was done by visiting their respective websites and researching particular conventions they displayed and then discussing how they could be adapted and applied to our own show. This was useful for our group because it allowed us to gather ideas of how to structure our production process and what kind of things we should consider, i.e time management, time slots allocated by broadcasters. The research also added perspective, as it outlined possibilities such as applying our existing film knowledge to the production, as there were many similarities that already existed in the TV production industry.
His secondary audience research involved reading through existing reviews of some drama shows that are influencing ours and noting down what worked well and planning to include it in our show. He found various sites that provide public and critic reviews, to give a more broad understanding of people's opinions. He provided links to top sites like IMDB and newspapers such as The Telegraph, these sites give a strong sense of authenticity to the information because they're cited as very reliable. He included these links, along with a brief summary of the information he found on them in his blog.
Zac Bowen's research summary - Zac has centered a lot of his information around his understanding of youth in his area and capitilised on this by making it a large part of his research. This was essentially a large survey outlining aspects of TV drama that people enjoyed and also their existing knowledge of it. It was based on an old website called 'UK tribes', which collected information from various youth sub-cultures and compared them to develop vast understandings of youth preference. He obtained info from 'Skaters', 'Rockers', 'Townies', 'Sports enthusiasts' and 'Casuals'. These are very varied sub-cultures which means we will obtain very varied and therefore more conclusive research. His conclusion outlines the pros/cons of his respondents responses.
His secondary audience research is a collection of images taken from a textbook 'The Media Student Book'. He used this source due to its reliability and therefore better information. It outlines such features as 'Media representations of audience', 'Media influence' and 'Academic representations of audiences'. This is useful to our group because it will ensure our information is valid and will allow us to edit anything that is wrong.
He repeated this process for his secondary production research. Taking shots from the same book under the section of production. Highlighting such things as 'The production process in outline', 'Finishing, distribution and exhibition'. His conclusion highlights what he can extract from the book and then apply to his own work.
Zac's primary production research involved emailing producers of existing TV drama shows. This research is similar to Jake's phone call. They both ask similar questions, however, they will get a much broader range of results because they're responses from two very different production companies that produce two different drama shows. This results in two perspectives being compared effectively producing better results.
Hannah Walsh's research summary - Hannah began her research with a set of online polls, conducted on http://quizilla.teenick.com and http://www.surveymonkey.com, these questions essentially asked people's opinions of existing drama shows, their age and what they like/disliked. The results she found are very useful because it not only gives us people's opinions, but shows stats such as age/gender, which are useful for seeing who exactly we are appealing to, and more importantly, who E4 are appealing to. Despite the respondents not going into much detail, I can compare my results with Hannah's and draw up comparisons and generalisations that will benefit our group and the production process.
The second part of Hannah's research consisted of finding out which TV dramas were rated the best, in order to find this information, she used sources from the weekly audience figures site 'BARB'. Hannah produced screenshots of her findings. These included numbers and percentages tallied from weekly drama show viewing figures. This is useful for our group because we can see how many people tune in to watch a particular show when it is aired in a particular time period/day. We can decide to air ours in a similar time period.
My own research summary - Firstly, I went about gathering viewer ratings from the site www.imdb.com. I used this site for its reliability and viewer ratings page. The ratings are in the format of bar charts representing how people of different age groups and genders responded to the drama shows I selected. I chose to look at ratings for Misfits, Skins and Dead Set, due to their popularity and influence on our own product. I think these stats will greatly benefit our group because they're adaptable enough to compare with other findings in my group and therefore produce more interesting and clear results.
I then began searching for manuals and tutorials for the equipment we would be using for our own 2 minute clip. To do this, I searched the product on Google and found the most reliable results from the most reliable sites. I searched multiple reviews to find the most accurate review that I could extract from. I found the cameras primary features and added them also. In addition to this, I added large screenshots of the product itself from various different angles to get a good analysis of the product and how it works and where commands are found. Finally, I searched YouTube for a user-friendly video tutorial that catered to people unfamiliar with the product, i.e me and my group, I thought this would be useful because it would not contain a lot of technical terms we were unfamiliar with and instead would slowly introduce us to the camera and build a better understanding.
My final piece of research is into webpages and their typical conventions. I took print screens from the webpage for the drama 'Misfits'. I analysed them and then noted down features I thought worked particularly well and would also work well for my group. I found various features that appealed to younger audiences, but also mature content for that of an older audience, so I tried to make use of this and gather as varied information as I could. The benefit of this will be in the construction of our own site, as we will see a completed product from an already successful production company and use it as a basis for our work.
In addition to this, I had the role of team leader, I therefore made sure everyone had completed their duties accordingly and edited things that we weren't sure of to fit our goals. Before anything was uploaded, it was ran by me and we composed ideas on improvements and things we liked/disliked. This benefited the group as it gave everyone a structure to abide by, which would allow the group to stay focused and get the work done on time. Also, with the technique of a final run through and editing process, it made sure all research was accurate and well presented enough.
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