Audience Research: Vox Pops (TBC)

In todays lesson we had to make our own Vox Pop, the name vox pop has come from the latin vox populi which means the voice of the people.

Vox pop setting
 Usually vox pops are seen on news programs to show the opinions of the public, this is the aim of a vox pop in general terms, usually the interviewees are seen in public places such as a street, and are supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter, the vox pops involve balanced opinions as the News team that uses the vox pops wants to be unbiased a phrase widely used in the news is "Opinion was divided on the streets "

As these interviews are done with the public they are usually flustered or giggly as they are caught off guard and the though of being on television can often be overwhelming, but this isn't always present as it is the interviewers job to make the interviewee feel comfortable.

Each person who is interviewed is asked the same question, the aim is to get a variety of views and answers on the given subject, journalists are usually told to approach a wide range of people to get  varied answers from different points of view. Here are some examples of some Vox Pop interviews

< In these interviews the public are being asked "who is Jesus?" and  how Halloween has changed to american tradition rather then the traditional English way of celebrating Halloween.
As you can see through out the interview there are answers that both support and deny  the topic at which they are speaking about, these are successful Vox Pops as it expresses a balanced argument.

Our Task: Our Vox Pop
For research we are making "Staged" Vox pops and the interviewees are the people in my class and our teacher.
We were asked to prepare answers for the following questions :

• Do you watch music videos?
• What is you favourite music video?
• What do you like about music videos?
• What makes a great music video?
• Where do you watch music videos?

Task:

1. Record your interviewer asking the questions straight at the camera 
2. Then record your interviewer asking the question to at least 1 person while looking into their eyes.
3. Record at least 5 different people answering random questions.
4. In the editing process make the Vox Pops brief and to the point.
5. Add a title at the beginning of the sequence.
6. Add captions identifying each participant- only use first names and a possible age and occupation.

Final Product- Our own Vox Pops 




Evaluation