Primary Research: Creating a documentary around peoples views on surveillance around Manshead School.

I shall film on different days in two different locations at the most busiest parts at school during lunch. That will be 45
minutes of footage in which I can document and capture the lives of ordinary civilians, determining their views regarding
surveillance. Who would come to question the camera and who doesnt? This allows me to gain diverse responses into
surveillance from people of many ages.
My first investigation within my primary research shall focus upon this experiment, determining peoples views upon
surveillance- with primary research; I can receive honest views on how multiple people view this debatable topic of
question. So, upon planning and permission, I shall proceed to set my camera up and mount it up at lunchtime where the
school shall be at its busiest. However, during the first piece of footage, I will not put up a sign indicating my intentions-this
is too merely see if people are happy enough to ignore the camera as they are unaware of what the camera is truly doing-this
could lead back to how governments keep civilians in the dark of how they are really tracking and surveying us as the truth
may cause uproar and discrepancies across the world. Without any sign, I can see if students and teachers ignore it and
choose to continue on with their lives, dismissing the camera. Conducting to see without knowledge that the camera is there
recording them, that they are happy to ignore it.
My second investigation will consist of filming another piece of footage at the same time yet in a different location from last
time- this shall be recorded yet have a clearly indicated sign that everyone is being watched via the camera and filmed
throughout this time. People caught in the footage shall clearly see the sign displayed and will either choose to ignore it, or
approach me enquiring as to why I am recording them and for what purpose.
I can than present these people with two different questionnaires- one slightly different from the other- one for the people
who chose to ignore me and resume their activities at lunchtime and the other survey for the people who were daring enough
to approach me with questions the ones that chose to ignore me shall be asked why they ignored the camera despite clearly
indicating that they were being watched. Yet the ones, who approached me with why Im recording them, shall be given a
slightly different questionnaire enquiring why they felt the need to approach me, ultimately determining if they felt uneasy
because I informed them via the sign that they were being filmed without consent, and violating their privacy? And to what
extent did I breech this? This than gives people the option to consider whether a camera filming their every movement is a
good thing or a bad thing. This choice is open to debate yet it gives people a choice on how to view it. Finding out who
comes to question the camera and who doesnt.
This would more or less be an open questionnaire for me, which may be quite time consuming for me to tally up, however it
would also give me honest answers of how people viewed surveillance. Making one big documentary for my primary
research deems fitting enough and am capable of editing one altogether Im also tempted to also do a closed survey, however
I believe that the open one shall be enough and I expand my research into other areas.
I believe that after the conclusion of this experiment, I can pick out the most interesting answers within my survey and
following these up with one to one interviews with these people, I like the idea of consulting my primary research, via school
grounds this would be something I would have to follow up and check with my supervisor.