Vox Pops Planning

How can you find opinions from an audience?

Questionnaires, interviews

Shot 1

• Direct address/gaze
• Informing audience

Shot 2

• Talk/chat show
• Interview

Shot 3

• Outside broadcast
• Factual information live
• Direct gaze

Shot 4

• Asking people questions in public
• Indirect gaze, looking off screen
• AKA Vox pop

 

What are the conventions of a Vox Pops?

Latin- voice of the people. Vox pops is used to learn opinions, we will be using it to understand what our audience knows and thinks about thrillers.

What makes up a Vox Pop?

• Superimpose the question at the beginning do not ask the question.
• Each person who answers superimpose their name, age and occupation at the bottom.
• Set in a busy area
• Medium close up of each respondent
• Respondent holds and indirect gaze
• Respondent tends to be on the right hand side looking left off screen
• Each person is on screen for a max. of 3 seconds

 

Questions

What is your favourite thriller film?

What makes it effective?

What is your favourite sub- genre of thriller?

What conventions would you expect in a thriller?

What conventions would make your ideal thriller?

What makes a thriller thrilling?

 

Task	Person
Organise questions	All
Film the Vox Pops	Alex Price
Interviewer	Matt Allan
Casting	Grace Ilett
editor	Georgia Saddington