NEA Audience Summation

   From asking questions to my focus group about their behaviours surrounding documentaries, I learnt a lot about how they would consume the text. ]

   All of the four people in the group watched documentaries at least semi - regularly, ranging from about once a month to once a week. So, from this information I can tell my my documentary must be engaging and snappy, as they could easily just find another one to watch. This target audience will also be very familiar with the codes and conventions of a documentary, so I would want to make mine distinctive so that it is still interesting to the very culturally aware viewers.

  Here were the group's favourite documentaries:

• Tiger King
• Parkway Drive: The Documentary
• Home Is For the Heartless
• FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
• Hip - Hop Evolution
• Louis Theroux documentaries

   Of these six documentaries, four are related to music. This suggests that the audience is already well-educated on this genre of documentary; therefore my documentary should offer a new and more insightful perspective on the issues I want to cover. I will probably achieve this by adding the element about local music venues, as I will interview the owners. The other documentaries, Tiger King and the Louis Theroux series, have a nice way of filming and have a relatively simple narrative structure that I could replicate:
   - Louis Theroux champions the 'Participatory Documentary' format in which the documentary         focuses on his findings.
   - 'Tiger King' is more observational in the way that everyone featured got to create the narrative.