Week 2 - Planning

  Starting off this day we got shown some examples of vox pops from both the CRaM year 11 class and also others who had it as a project. It was both amusing and interesting to see the responses of the people about certain issues.  After watching I got in a pair with Maxime and starting discussing what the topic of our vox pop should be. We went with 3 main ideas : Video Games, Torrenting and Responsibility. After thinking of what questions we could ask and also which one would have a wider range of people to ask and of course which one we could easily ask and be a current issue. We decided to go with Video Games because it is a current topic to talk about and also is still growing. Now with the questions, we went with questions as before I had mentioned had to be for a good a number of age ranges. So we came up with a variety of questions that would fit with a lot of age groups like parents, teenagers and even people around their 20's and 30's. Questions like "how much would you let your child play video games?" or "how long do you play video games each day" and many more. After getting all the questions down on paper we decided which parts in town which would be best to as people about these things. We decided next to game shops and computer shops would be the ideal places. Then we started to do some research about video games to find out some shocking facts. We found out that in a forum at least 100 people play more than 4 hours a day!

We came up for a lot of other facts that were just as shocking. After all the planning we were ready to do some vox popping next week in town and see what people would answer.

Week 1 - Vox Pops?!?!?

Coming into this lesson I didn't know how hard vox popping was and also that it was named vox popping. So vox popping was basically asking people in outside about their opinions on stuff like the royal wedding. So after learning about vox popping we had a few demonstrations in class. Now as usual i'm one of the actors during the demonstration even though my acting is terrible, but turned out i didn't need to act that much at all.

  Then we had to head out in groups and go around to do some vox popping of our own. Our group decided to get to Cineworld to ask people around there about their thoughts on the royal wedding and also filming them at the same time(which is what you have to do in vox popping). At first I had to ask a few people that we thought would answer our questions, but soon found out how much people were scared of people with cameras in their hands and ready to film you. So after a while one person agreed to answer our questions and that vox pop went quite well and boosted our confidence to ask more people. So soon after that I asked a few people and as usual they walked past, but in that time we managed to find 2 more people that would answer our questions and both went alright. Then for the last person we switched tasks and I had to carry the wires around.
  After filming our last vox pop just before the deadline we got back and started to edit the pieces and then also film a technique that required us to face the camera and say related subjects about our vox pops or just give a introduction. We messed around a bit on that part and even added some bloopers of those moments to the end of our piece. After we finished with that we headed back to edit the rest and also add these parts in.
  After that lesson I thought I had to work a bit better at my microphone holding skills because even though it never ended up in shot it wasn't close enough to the person we were vox popping.