Zoe Williams
Level 2 Media
I took to Instagram to do a poll. Here are my results.
55% YES
45% NO
As you can see in both these polls the percentage is very close.
I created a SurveyMonkey with 3 questions.
I got 15 responses over 2 days.
From my primary research, I found out that 40% of the people who participated in the survey have parents who are separated or divorced and the other 60% of the people have parents who are still together, with only 20% difference between the two.
The second question I asked was 'how old were you when they separated?'. I asked this question beacuse I was curious to see if parents separated earler in the child's life in order to make it easier or older when they've possibly left home or maybe it just hppened when they felt it wasn't right anymore no matter what age the child was. From my results I found out that parents separated most when the children were 0-5 years old and 16-20 years old (both 20%) and the other 60% was over 20+ or didn't apply to them beacuse their parents aren't separated.
I feel like this last question is abit personal so i didn't ask why or go into detail but i was courious to find out if it had an affact on them in any way. 40% of people said yes it did affect them in some way and the other 60% said they either didn't really care or no beacuse there parents never separated.
Overall review
When creating my poll for Instagram and Facebook they had very similar results and it shows that people with parents who are together are just as common as people who have divorced or separated parents. I was expecting a different outcome; I thought I would be shocked by the amount of people who have separated parents but it turns out it's just as common as people whose parents are still together.
I found a video style that I want to create for my documentary
This documentary-style starts off with a slow-motion shot of him walking in front of the camera to the chair.
Then a side shot of him walking around the table to get to his chair.
It then cuts to a low front shot of him pulling out his chair to take a seat.
Then it cuts to a wide shot of him sitting alone looking out to what seems to be a window in the room to create the sense of loss.
Throughout all of these shots we have been hearing him reading how he feels. Then he comes on to the screen and we see what we have been hearing for the first 30seconds.
Close ups of him writing the letter he has been reading and an over the shoulder shot.
shows him in a different location and the reason for him sitting on the floor is most children when they are sad they tend to sit on the floor then sit on the sofa.
It then goes back to the same front shot of him looking out the widow then him standing up and leaving the table with the same shots as it started off with.
This is the type of style i want my documentary to look like but with my own personal story and the facts and statistics that i found in my research.