Vox Pop Day!

Today was our voxpopping day, as a group we knew that it was going to be a heavily-action packed day so the previous week we made a plan of what we needed to do this week and we also made a prop list (things we needed to bring in e.g. santa hats)

I thought that today was overall successfull because we asked over 30 people, this included a variety of demographics too. We were pleased with the variety of different opinions and perspectives we captured. 
I played the role and selectively choosing people to ask and then interviewing them with our questions. During our practice vox-pop session last week, I noticed a few things that made people not want to stop and talk to you:

• Wearing some sort of uniform - we figured out that all of us should be wearing the CRaM uniform because it looked more professional and less like we were a bunch of teens asking random strangers questions.

• Having some sort of persuasion, something they can get out of us filming them. In our case we used sweets. 

• Having contextual shots alongside our interviews - contextual shots for example footage of people walking past with shopping bags make the film overall more interesting. 

Throughout the whole day we felt that we had interviewed a lot of people and used up a lot of film and we were stuck between the decision of to carry on filming or whether to attempt to find contextual shots around town. Because of the topic we had chosen 'christmas' we soon found that it was hard to find backgrounds to shoot or contextual shots to shoot we had something to do with christmas because it was late september. Instead we  shot footage of shoppers just walking past, in which we would later on speed up as a sort of collage. 

Next week we hope to start editing our footage.