60% of people who answered my questionnaire are aged between 13 and 16, 30% are aged 17 and 19. Those are the two, most picked age categories, showing that all of my answers have been responded by teenagers. This means that teenagers are most likely to be the Audience for my project and their opinions matter most, when choosing what I should make.

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Now that I have worked out my target audience, I can use my questions, 2 and 4, to determine what would be appealing for them to watch. 42.5% of people would prefer to watch a short film and 37.5% of people would prefer a Documentary. The statistics and choices between the two are so close that I will stick with what my strongest filmmaking skill is, which is making a documentary. I struggle to story tell and come up with ideas, so a factual non-fiction topic would suit me best.

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With a Documentary being my FMP project type, I then needed to work out, what everyone's choice of documentary to watch would be. So question 3 is what subject are you most interested in. I narrowed the answers down to 4 possibilities: Autism, Films, Cancer and Society. I chose those 4 subjects as I have ideas and interviewees for every one. The top two most picked were Autism and Society. With both subjects being very similar to each other and Autism being my preferred choice, I combined the two together. My sister Stephanie is diagnosed with Autism. The subject is very close to me and I know a lot of knowledge about it. To put Autism and Society together, I brainstormed different scenarios in which my sister is involved with society. I then discovered that many people are unaware of the disability to an extent. No ones understands the true impact of society with my sister and disabilities. Many Autistic people struggle to fit in and be accepted within society. To test my theory and confirm it, I went on to ask questions 5-7.

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Those questions are based on Autism singularly. I used clever worded questions in an attempt to get a true idea of how people react to disabilities and their opinions on them. For example, one of my questions are: do you see Autism as a disability or mental health illness? The options to be picked were disability, mental illness and other. Most people do not understand the severity of Autism and believe it to be something that can be cured. People also believe it is all in their head and that is why many people connotate the word Autistic to being crazy. this is why I gave the option for 'other' so if they wished to expand on their answer they could.

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Another question asked was:  What is your definition of Autism. In order to test peoples knowledge and understanding of the disability, I had to see what they thought Autism was about and how it effects an individual. A reoccurring answer was: 'a mental illness that can be developed at any time throughout someone's life' and 'a social depletion within society.' Autism cannot be developed at any age, every person is born with it. It also is not a mental illness, it is something that starts off or causes a mental illness. As much as it is true that Autistic people struggle to communicate and socialise within society, that is not the whole picture and is certainly not the definition of the disability. It seems that many young people, unless they have personal attachments to Autism, have no idea what is included with Autism and what Autism can lead to. This has given me the incentive to create a Documentary about the definitions and life with Autism. To display that and give examples to the Audience, I will use my sister as an interviewee within the project. 

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Throughout my time at secondary school, I have been in countless situations where the word Autism or Autistic has been used in a negative context. It has gone from a serious disability to being used as a adjective for craziness and dumbfounded. It is important to me that within the Documentary I touch up on the impact it has on my sister being mistreated by society and the community. To get a rough idea on how many people use Autistic and an attack within sentences, I asked the question: Have you ever used the word Autism or Autistic in a negative way during conversations? My answer options were yes, no, possible and I don't think so. 57.5% of people said they have not. As much as I want to believe that this question was answered honestly and correctly, I cannot. I know that many people who responded with no, have definitely done it before. Therefore, I cannot trust the answers to this question as they are not completely accurate.

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Lastly I asked the question: how long are you willing to watch a documentary? My top 2 answers were 30-60 minutes and 20-30 minutes. As this is a student film and have only a day to record everything, I have had to restrict how long I will be able to make this documentary be. If I was to recreate this project in the future, I would make it play towards the hour mark. With me only being able to film in one location because of Covid-19, I will not be able to gather enough footage to make the project any longer than 15 minutes without it being boring to the Audience.

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In conclusion, I will be creating a 10-15 minute Documentary about my sister living in society with Autism and the project will have a target audience of 13-19 year old's.