Research into freestyle football

1. I have produced a questionnaire to conduct primary audience research/market research into the viability of my concept. Here are my findings:

As you can see from this graph, 47% of all respondents were teenagers of 10-19 years old, 33% were young adults of 20-26 years old and 20% were 27-46 years old. In my opinion, the documentary should succeed in the appropriateness to target audience.

Almost a half of the respondents (47 %) have heard about freestyle football. However, the other half of the respondents have heard nothing about the sport.
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When I asked people 'Have you ever seen freestyle football on TV?', most people (93%) answered 'No'.

Fortunately, the vast majority of respondents(93%) would like to know more about this sport.

Interestingly, only 60% of the respondents watch documentary films. The rest 40% of the respondents think that documentaries are boring.

Good news that despite the lack of interest in documentaries, almost all respondents (93%) would like to watch a documentary about football freestyle.

2. To collect secondary research data for my documentary, I gathered all information on freestyle football through the worldwide web. Here are my findings:



I looked at existing news stories based around my idea

I have also watched existing documentaries that are similar to my idea

initial consideration of the logistics/costings of practically realising your idea (eg travel to locations etc)
arranging interviews with experts/witnesses/key persons as appropriate (create a contact sheet but don't publish on your blog) and holding pre-filming meetings
collating/presenting findings of these interviews and meetings on your blog post
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3. The current UK laws on filming in public:
do you need to consider libel or defamation?
are you risking infringement of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code?
read the Viewer Trust Guidelines from the Channel 4 website and highlight any key points that you find interesting or that might impact your production.
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3. The current UK laws on filming in public
''Your local council will have a film office which will be able to help you. The first thing they will ask will be whether you have public liability insurance, which covers you for any injuries to third parties or damage to property. If you're a tourist with a hand-held camera you don't need it, but as soon as you're talking tripods, or the film is for anything other than personal use, then you must have insurance. Policies are available by the day, week or year; an annual policy costs about £150''. (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/26/makingvideo.workshops3)
There is no law stopping anyone filming in a public place, so if you are on the streets you can film without asking permission.
There is a law – Section 58A of the Terrorism Act 2000 – that says police officers can stop you filming them if they believe that the video will be used for purposes of terrorism. However, police guidelines state that:
“it would ordinarily be unlawful to use section 58A to arrest people photographing police officers in the course of normal policing activities… An arrest would only be lawful if an arresting officer had a reasonable suspicion that the photographs were being taken in order to provide practical assistance to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”. http://netpol.org/2012/07/27/a-rough-guide-to-filming-the-police-during-a-stop-search/

http://philipbloom.net/2009/04/14/filming-in-public-places/