Week 3 - Finally The Vox-Popping Begins

  After 3 weeks of working on my research report Maxime and I started our vox popping. My job was to hold the mic and wear the headphones and obviously ask the questions while Maxime used the camera and also asked the people on the street if they wanted to answer the questions. The main questions we asked were:

• Do you play video games? (if yes)
• What type of video games do you play?
• How long do you play on weekdays and weekends?
• Do you think that amount is alright?
• (If younger than 18) Do you respect the age restriction on video games?
• (If older than 18) Do you think people should respect the age restrictions?

  We first set off to the outside of the Grafton Centre. After a while I decided it would be best to come around this area during lunch hours since there were construction workers near the place we were filming and we would end up with horrible background noise.
  We then headed of to the Grand Arcade and asked a few outside there if they wanted to be interviewed. We managed to get 1 person throughout the time we had there so I decided we at least get 9 more people after we took a break.
  During the lunch hours we went back to the Grafton area and started asking people if they would like to answer our questions. We got 2 people and then a person from a shop asked what we were doing so Maxime and I explained about our project and then I asked the man if we could ask him the questions we had and he accepted. After interviewing he said we could ask anyone else that is part of there crew. We asked 1 more person from that shop and then set off to ask more people around that area. We then found tis man who came up to us and asked what exactly we were doing and then explained and he offered to help us. He knew a lot about the subject on vox popping and gave us some very entertaining footage to use.
  After that we headed to the marketplace, but didn't manage to find anyone to interview so we headed to a park nearby and managed to get 2 more people. So after that we decided that it would be enough footage to take back. Even though I set our target as at least 10 people we got close enough and even had more than the rest of the groups.
  So after today I developed a lot more skill in vox popping and it became slightly less awkward asking random people on the street to be interviewed. I say that it was an overall success and the editing will be the easy part of the project.