Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Survey

So I began my survey of 100 people today...

Some of the problems I encountered today:
- Location: the initial location (Islington high street) was problematic as there were (eight) charity workers working in the same location. We decided to move and ended on property we didn't know was private property (middle of N1 centre). The most successful location was near Chapel market.
- Amount of people: many people were reluctant to become a part of the documentary, in the time available, we managed to survey 40 people. 22 were willing to be filmed, 18 only wanted their voice recorded. The amount of males and females were equal also.
- Equipment: one of the crew members was a media student (a friend as suggested by Rebecca to help out), she was late and although this didn't affect the actual taking of the survey, we actually completely forgot the mic! It was only until we brought the equipment back that Rebecca brought it up and the crew member mentioned that we needed it.

I guess I can call this is a learning curve (or whatever they call it) seeing as I have 60 more people to do.
Improvements for next time:
- Remember the mic!
- Begin the filming later (as I started at 10:30) around lunchtime
- Change of location possibly?

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