Vox Pops

Vox pops is translated to mean "Voice of the people". This usually takes place in public places which gives the feel of the interviewees giving spontaneous opinions in a one chance encounter.
Vox pops are often used on news programmes to show  'balance'.  So the point of views are divided.

Because the results of such an interview are unpredictable at best, usually vox pop material is edited down very tightly. This presents difficulties of balance, in that the selection used ought to be, from the point of view of journalistic standards, a fair cross-section of opinions.

The process
Each person is asked  the same question, the aim is to get a variety of answers and opinions on any given subject.
Journalists are usually instructed to approached a wide range of people to get varied answers from different points of view.




Our Task:
we were set a task to record our interviewer asking the questions straight into camera. We had to record our interviewer asking the question to at least one person while staring deep into their eyes and record at least 5 different people answering these selected questions.:

Like all good media everyone needs to prepare to answer the questions:
Do you watch music videos?
What is your favourite music video?
What do you like about music videos?
What makes a great music videos?
Where do you watch music videos?

In the editing process we need to make the Vox pops brief and to the point.
We need to add a title at the beginning of the sequence.
We need to add a caption identifying each participant- we should only use first names and possible age and occupation
Our task is to practice the process in groups in the classroom.