First Collaborative Efforts

So, my friend Jon noticed a connection between our respective topics (his topic being his venture to become an author, and mine being an investigation into passion, emotion, immersion, etc., and their effects on human pleasure and happiness) and suggested that we take our collaboration beyond simply exchanging feedback and support, as we had been limited to in the past. He proposed that we set up some sort of poll asking the public, essentially, what they get out of popular entertainment, be it a book, a movie, or a television show. He sent me a couple of questions to start, and I fired back some of my own. This is what we have after literally five minutes of emailing:

- Why do you read or watch movies/television?

- How often do you seek that sort of entertainment? 

- What feelings do the shows/movies/books that you most enjoy induce?

- What elements do you think are responsible for those feelings?
- How do those feelings contribute to the experience?
- Do you prefer something intensely engaging, whether through emotional impact or simply through suspense, or something more silly/mindless/relaxing?  What events in your daily life help you make this determination when you peruse the book shelf or pick up the remote?

I have already acknowledged that these questions, particularly the ones I generated, are not well suited for a poll format. We discussed making some simpler questions to be used by a standard, click through, multiple choice poll, while leaving a free-response ballot/questionnaire with a bit deeper, more comprehensive questions as an option for those willing to undertake it.