Monday, 19 September 2011

Last years research process

Last year whilst studying AS media, we had made many mistakes regarding audience. The first mistake we made was our survey we sent it out individually instead of using a site such as http://www.surveymonkey.com/. This was a major setback as less people would take our survey due to it not being mutiple choice and they also had to write/type, this year we only went for multiple choice questions which meant the survey could be completed with just clicking a mouse. My colleagues also suggested that we do more then five questions but less then ten so we decided to go with 8 questions which is enough to give us the information required without having to much questions for the participants to answer.

Our feedback from last year was poor, this was due to us printing out the survey and having participants write their answers down this gave us less feedback and careless answers. Now that we are using the website "surveyMonkey"we can put the survey on our personal profiles of social networking sites  such as (Facebook,Twitter,Blogger and bebo) this gives us a wider audience.

I've also discussed with my new colleauges about their past expirences, Malika who did not study in Ernest Bevin last year told me about her expirence. Malika described her colleauges last year as "lazy"  she told me that the course started well but as the year went on her colleagues began to stop working leaving her with the work. She also informed me that the filming schedule was poor as they could not get the same free lessons the only time they could meet up was after school, and the time was limited. Then when they had reached the editing stage her group did not want to help leaving Malika to edit by herself although Malika passed her media studies AS course she believes the grade could have been improved if her group decided to help.

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