New Year Update

• Research

All research projects now seem to be on-track and ideas are flowing freely. Make sure that you all continue with your research and start giving some thought to how you are going to put together these productions.

• Questionnaires

Last week we looked at your questionnaires, some interesting grammar and missing/duplicated questions aside we had some excellent examples. Make sure that you collate the data that you have collected and consider how this has informed your production ideas - if you leave everything to the last minute you will have far too much to do.

• Focus Groups

This week has seen a focus on focus groups (see what I did there?) for which I modelled the process on Monday - Using 7-10 questions that are very open and available for people to interpret in different ways I provoked debate about Men's Magazine and their representation of women. Some interesting discussion developed with some very vocal responses - Those heavily involved shall remain nameless- Ok Digga?

This hopefully demonstrated the range of useful responses that you can gain from a focus group.

You should now be preparing your own questions that will provoke similar discussions and therefore give you some interesting material to include in your research.

• Coming Up

Next week we look closely at secondary research and the correct method of referencing.