Research

Primary Research

Before going ahead with my concept for my 3 Minute Wonder, I had to carry out multiple forms of research. Primary research is one method I used, which is self-generated research, For this I created a survey on surveymonkey.com and emailed it out to get feedback on people's views on the subject and and questions they may have. I asked a few questions to establish what gender and age groups I was getting feedback from.

It turned out that around 60% of the feedback was from females and 66% were ages 16-18. In fact, 100% of the  feedback came from nobody older than 21. This indicates that tattoos are more popular with the younger generation opposed to the older.

I found out that 100% of people who answered the survey would be interested in watching a documentary on tattoos, giving me the impression that my idea is viable to go ahead with and create my documentary on.

Secondary Research

In terms of secondary research I went on the world wide web and researched the tattoo parlour that I was going to use as a filming site and get my tattoo done. This was so that I could find out about the parlour itself, and look at opening times and location for when I filled out my pre-production paperwork before filming.

Another form of secondary research I carried out was looking on the website DeviantArt, where I searched for inspiration for the tattoo that I would get done for the documentary. DeviantArt is an online photo library, full of endless images for you to browse through and get ideas from.

I also watched Youtube videos of any exisiting documentaries on my subject topic. This gave me ideas for the documentary genre and shots/angles to use such as the birds eye view shot of the tattoo being done. Here is an exampel of an already existing 3 Minute Wonder