To add a Video Booth question, you can follow these steps:
- Access the Back Room > Research Tools > SurveyMR 2.0
- Select your survey or click ‘Add Survey 2.0’ in the top right corner
- In the surveys' build tab, add a new question by first clicking and dragging the 'form' box from the left of the page onto the canvas.
- Open the drop-down menu, and choose ‘Video Booth’
- Add a short description in the question text box provided, such as 'Click on the 'Begin Recording' button to start'. (We strongly recommend adding the full Video Booth instruction text within an 'Information' type question at the top of the form, instead of within the Video Booth question box itself due to the way that this displays on the output).
- Beneath the question box, you can alter the amount of time you would like to give respondents for recording their video.
Good to know: This is automatically set at 3 minutes which is the maximum time. You can decrease this in 30 second increments to a more appropriate length for you and the question you are asking your participants.
Good to know: A respondent can rerecord their message, but this will deduct any additional time used from the total time available for an answer. For example: If it is set to be a maximum 2-minute recording and a participant makes a mistake and starts again after 30 seconds, when they restart the recording, the maximum they can record will be 1.5 minutes.
- As with other questions in SurveyMR 2.0, you can also select the button for ‘Require Answers’ if you would like this question to be compulsory before proceeding further in the survey.
Top tip: We would recommend that Video Booth questions are optional, just in case a participant has a technical issue or is not comfortable recording a video. This way they can proceed through to the rest of the survey.
- The question will appear with a ‘Begin Recording’ button on the live survey. The participant need only click the button and record their message directly from their PC, laptop or smart phone, using their camera and microphone.
To ensure the best user experience for respondents, particularly those answering on mobile, only one Video Booth question can be added per question form. To add an additional Video Booth question, please create a new form.
Audio / Video optional questions
You may not need always need a video response from users, or users might be unwilling to submit a video response, but are still willing to submit an audio clip. Thankfully, there are a couple of additional options within Video booth questions. Firstly, you can set video as optional, meaning users will have the choice to submit a video or audio-only response.
Secondly, if you do not need video at all you can set the question to audio only allowing the respondent to submit a voice note style response.
In order to set up an audio-only or video optional question you just need to set the below selector to one of 3 positions shown below.
Consumer view – Video optional
Consumer view – Audio only
To ensure the best user experience for respondents, particularly those answering on mobile, only one Video Booth question can be added per question form. To add an additional Video Booth question, please create a new form.