Research Diary Notes

Research Diary-Secondary, qualitative
-2 books
-2 websites
-2 magazines/newspapers or journals

Has to be on your chosen topic. Target audience(help you prove who your audience is).
Analyse other documentaries for the things that they use to hook their audience(pull out specific examples from the documentary that interests the audience i.e. music, images, people, places etc)
Do primary research i.e. interviews, questionnaires.

How to set out your diary
Books
-Get a quote from a book (write the page number and authors name underneath it)
-Summarise what the quote means in your own words
Find a section from a book that was useful to you and summarise it into 3 or 4 bullet points
How useful was this research?
was it:
-Relevant?
-Bias?
-Easy to understand?
-Will it inform your documentary?

Websites-Academic/relevant
Find a section from a website that was useful to you and summarise it into 3 or 4 bullet points
Find a quote from a website(link of the website, title of the page, author of site)
Summarise what this quote means in your own words
How useful was this research?
was it:
-Relevant?
-Bias?
-Easy to understand?
-Will it inform your documentary?

Magazines/Newspapers or Journals
Find a quote(link to the name of the author, title of newspaper/magazine/journal/date)
Summarise what this quote means in your own words
Read a section of the article and summarise it into 3 or 4 bullet How useful was this research?
was it:
-Relevant?
-Bias?
-Easy to understand?
-Will it inform your documentary?

Do you watch documentaries?
Yes-Which do you watch
No-Why not? what do you watch instead?

Treatment-What is in it and how to set it out

1. Who is the target audience for your documentary(age, gender, interests etc)?
-How are you going to target your audience
2. How will yours be better than other documentaries for young people?
3. Plot/Outline-You explain the layout/format (participatory/observational) of your documentary
What will your audience learn? make links to some research from your diary.