I had a word with Andy about my questionnaire and some of the troubles I had with it, and he gave me some useful advice on improving my questionnaire.
We identified with the last one that the questionnaire was too open in terms of how people can answer it. For example because the question is asking “What do you first pay attention to when communicating with someone” it’s hard to identify what scenario they should be responding to e.g. are they talking to a doctor, a friend, a boss, etc… So in order to get the right results, I need to make a questionnaire with some context to it.
To achieve this I needed to take the questionnaire into a different direction in terms of structure. Andy came up with a clever idea of provided examples for the audience to respond to, something similar to what I originally was planning for my final experiment featuring my animations. In this new structure I will get the audience to look at the examples provided and have them identify what form communication they’re paying more attention to, this way I can get more clearer results for me to evaluate in my write and it also serves as practice for setting up my actual experiment, but what I need to do is find some good examples to use that demonstrate all three forms in different ways.
These first two references I found whilst looking at Kyle Kenworthy’s 100 acting references. Kyle has spent time collecting references from a variety of different films, talking about specific scenes that demonstrate some good performances from different actors that animators could learn from, if you want to take a look at his list click HERE. The reason I picked these two is that they both have a good balance of different forms of communication within them, and because of this I expect that the audience response will be fair.
As for this one I thought I’d throw in an animated one in seen as this is for animation write up, but besides that, this clip demonstrates a good balance too, and I’m quite interested in the response with an animated performance as animated films tend to use more Visual forms than the other, but we’ll have to see on the results.
I’m going to whip up the survey and post it to a number of different groups on social media to get diverse range of answers. Hopefully by the end of next week the responses will look good for me to evaluate.
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