Survey - Why Did It Go Wrong?

Below is the survey that I created to refine my project and otherwise hone in on a more specific topic. I namely wished to discover which would be the preferred Crusade from students but saw this as an opportunity to better know my demographic and what they expect from my video. However, some areas of the results aren't as useful as I had hoped. In this survey I asked 25 students.

Notably it seems half of the people I asked were History students whereas the other half were not. This appears fine at first, given that I wished to offer a better understanding of History to those who don't study it - making it more accessible to the average person in order to engage an interest in the subject - however it soon became apparent that the information given was not as useful as I'd hoped.

Whilst the overall consensus was an interest in the Third Crusade, I believe that this might also be down to the non-History students simply choosing it randomly or based on media influence, the Third Crusade being a prominent fixture in Western Media. Through films such as the Kingdom of Heaven taking place prior to the Third Crusade along with Robin Hood having reference to the Third Crusade due to the absence of King Richard the Lionheart, his brother John taking over while he was away on Crusade, it is likely the nuanced reference played some role in influencing people's opinion.

Additionally, the question allowing for the students to write a comment on what they would like to see are rather simple: some saying "facts" or "history" and others simply adding "knights and fighting". Clearly the question is either too vague or allows the students too much freedom, alternatively they may not have answered seriously as some added film quotes within the text box.


The Results:

I have left out the results from the fifth question as they were widely useless or perhaps too simple. The results of the final question are also not included as they're relatively irrelevant, I was unable to find anyone younger than 17 as I conducted the survey during a free period, therefore 23 are students and only 2 are above 20 years old - these being a couple of teachers I extended the survey to.

The Third Crusade appears to have been the most popular an interestingly everyone claimed that visuals help with learning - which bodes well for my visual orientated video. Additionally, many claim that the use of images such as photographs (either of armour or places or paintings I presume) along with stick men are the best visuals. There also seems to be quite a split between the most important aspect of the history video, therefore I am likely going to include narrative, facts and factors - presenting the historical information as to meet each criteria. Furthermore, the technical aspect of my video will seemingly include a narration, something which will perhaps require a voice actor as to best narrate the video and the information.

Lastly, the length of the video seems to range from 5 minutes and above; it is unlikely that a video shorter will offer as much depth to the subject and anything too long will be disengaging perhaps. Therefore it is likely that the video will aim to keep around near 10 minutes or so as that seems to be a popular time, this coincides well with how long the videos of certain YouTubers are.