The nature and purposes of research

Primary research/ self-generated research

1. Define primary research - Primary research is research that you collect yourself, this can be surveys or interviews.
2. What did you do? - I my documentary I interviewed friends about things linked to mental illnesses.
3. List examples from your project - we collected information and interviewed people who knew a little about some kind of mental illness.

Secondary Research

1. Define secondary research - Information someone else has collected.
2. What did you do? - I collected most of the information about the statistics about mental illnesses form website for the interview with Paul.
3. List of examples - we collected information about mental illnesses, how to get help, and how to help people with mental illnesses.

Quantitative research

1. Define quantitative research - This type of research is linked with numerical data e.g statistics.
2. What did you do? - We got most of our information on the statistics online.
3. List examples from your project - We got our statistics for how many people suffer form mental health issues.

Qualitative research

1. Define qualitative research - This is peoples opinions and attitudes to media products, they are normally reviews.
2. What did you do? - I looked up some articles on peoples opinions and people who suffer with some type of mental illness.
3. List examples from you project - During the interview Paul tells you how he feels about mental illnesses and how to help.

Data gathering agencies

1. Explain what the BARB does. Also, IMDB and boxofficemojo can be mentioned.

BARB stands for broadcasters audience research board, BARB measures television viewings for the all of the UK. The IMDB and boxofficemojo collect information about TV shows, movies and what's happening with in the films.

Purposes of research

Audience and market research
1. What did you do? -  When looking online about mental illnesses getting the information about it and looking for documentaries about it I couldn't find much on it. also, it was surprising to learn that a lot of people with mental illnesses don't go get help because they consider mental illness as weak.
2. Explain the audience research from you project - Our target audience is aimed at people suffering with mental illnesses and letting them know they can get help, that's why we had someone with one of the most common mental illnesses on our documentary and also a part informing people on how to get help or how to help someone with a mental illness.

Productive research

1. What did you do? - Paul and I decided that the documentary would be about mental illnesses because people with it normally don't go to a doctor to get help. The documentary was made without any money, all of the equipment was taken out for free and everything else was provided by the college or by actors. Most of the recording was done in College the rest was down the high street.