Drag Queen Questionnaire

Audience Results

What is your Gender?Most of the results we got back were from females. We had 33.3% males respond and 66.7% of females. Having overall positive responses shows how much the topic has been welcomed into today’s generation. This tells us our target audience will be both genders.

However, we had some aggressive and inappropriate responses that we have blurred out. These responses came from both male and female audience members.

How old are you?

The age with the highest percentage was 16-20 with 64.3%. I think this occurred due to younger people being more open and interested in what Drag Queens actually do in everyday life. The lowest percentages were under 16’s with 4.67%, 31-40 with 5.95% and 40+ with 10.71%. This tells us that our main target audience ages will be from 16- 30 (with 16-20 having 64.3% and 21-30 having 14.3%).

What is your Favourite Colour?

The highest percentage for colour was blue with 20.5% followed by purple with 19.3%. This tells us that these colours should be used mainly throughout our project as they are the colours that appeal most to our target audience. The least favourite was the colour yellow which means we won't be using this colour in our documentary.

What Music do you Listen to?

From our results we came to the conclusion that the most popular genre was Pop music and the least popular was 70s music. We will be using mainstream pop music within our documentary as this is what appeals to our target audience.

What channels do you watch on TV?

When we made our initial plans we chose Channel 4 to be the channel our documentary would be shown on. From our results we have come to the conclusion that Channel 4 is the most popular channel as 22.95% and 56 of the responses chose this channel. The least popular channel was ITV4 as this only got 2 responses out of 84. We will be using our initial plans to air our documentary on Channel 4.

Which title interests you the most?

The results show that ‘Life’s a Drag’ was the most popular title with 55.95% voting for it. Therefore this will be our working title for our documentary. The second favourite was ‘Dare to Drag’ with 22.62%, so you can see from the distance between these percentages that ‘Life’s a Drag’ is clearly more appealing to our audience than the other options.

Have you ever been to a Drag Show?

73.61% of people have never been to a drag show but 29 responses said they would like to go if they had a chance.There were 18 responses that said that they would definitely not like to watch a drag show. This documentary will show people what it is like to experience a drag show and possibly change their attitude towards Drag Queens.

What interests you about Drag Queens?

33.33% of the responses said that drag queens makeup is what interests them the most. The least favourite was their choice of music which was 8.33%. In our documentary we will be showing many clips of makeup artists and drag queens applying it themselves.

What one word would you use to describe a Drag Queen?

We asked the following question to get an insight into people's opinions of Drag Queens.Although we did get some abusive comments the majority of them were positive.

Have you watched the following?

We asked this question as the majority of our audience had seen the following programmes but had no negative views that they were drag queens. This looks at drag queens in a different light as they are seen as actors and comedians.

What do you think about men wearing makeup?

We asked this question to see how people would honestly respond to men wearing makeup as it has become more accepted. We found that there were mostly positive responses, proving that it’s not a frowned upon topic as much as it was in the past. However, we did get some negative responses - some worse than others, but they are the people who we are trying to show that Drag is nothing to be negative about.

What look do you prefer?

We asked our audience what kind of drag look do they prefer between natural and staged drag. 54.76% of our target audience said that they prefer natural

makeup over staged. This means that throughout our documentary we will show more natural drag artists rather than the over the top staged queens.