PANTOMIMES

By Iana

Proposal

I am going to be creating a radio podcast about

pantomimes. My main objective is to find out if

people enjoy participating in them, and if they

feel they get anything rewarding out of them at

the end.

I want my podcast to be like a segment from

Radio 1, when they interview celebrities, for

example when a film is released the stars of the

film will do interviews for radio.

Primary research

I created a survey on SurveyMonkey and then posted the link on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook and tagged the people I do panto with, so I could gather their responses.

When I had a panto rehearsals I sat down with my cast mate Nat and asked her a few questions.

Firstly I asked her about her experience throughout the years of doing panto. She said about working her way up throughout different roles. It was a chance for her to experience different roles and find out which one she was comfortable with playing.

It was a semi structured interview that provided information that I used to make my questionnaires. May T (2002) says “these types of interviews are said to allow people to answer more on their own terms than the standardized interview permits.”

Primary + quantitative research

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6

Male

Female4

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Age

16-19

20-26

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32+

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0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

Occupation

Series1

The first graph shows the number of females

compared to the number of men involved in

pantomimes.

The age graph shows the number of people

involved in pantomimes. And it shows that it is

mainly younger people that are involved.

The occupations of the people I asked

vary, most of them are either self

employed, administrative or sales assistants.

Secondary, qualitative research

Birmingham University has found that watching

pantomimes also has the same effect on people as

watching Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor.

This is a review from The Reporter

Feb/21/2013 for the Pantomime Jack and Jill

Qualitative research

To collect qualitative research I created a survey

and asked some of the following questions

I asked these questions because I wanted a range of varied

answers, and the answers I got to these questions were all very

different, as some people said that they were influence by what they

saw, and wanted to be a part of it.

Conclusion

From my survey I have found out that the people that take

part in pantomimes are mainly women aged between 16 to

19.

When asked how they got involved in pantomime most of

the answers revolved around being influenced by family.

Also when asked how enjoyable they found rehearsals

leading up to the performances most of the answers were

over the rating of 8.

From the answers that I have collected, I have interpreted

that most of the people who answered feel that

pantomimes are rewarding.

Bibliography

McQueen and Knussen (2002) Reseach

Methods for Social Science, an introduction.

Prentice Hall London

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/our/news/

items/Pantomime.aspx

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/2J7cDv

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