Vox Pop Evaluation

For our music video we had to make a vox pop where we would ask people different questions about music videos. We did this to gather information so that when we begin to create our music video was can take different opinions into consideration to form ideas that can appeal to the widest possible audience. A vox pop is a good way to gather information because by using a variety of people in our vox pop we can receive un-biased views on music videos.

To begin our vox pop we made a introduction to show what we would be interviewing in the video. We then recorded myself asking all the questions. The we followed by recorded one at a time the responses from the people we interviewed. In the editing stage we would cut them so the presenter asks the question and then all the responds would follow. For the interviews we used to boom mic for the first time. For this the person using it has to make sure that the mic is close enough to the person talking to get good sound but also make sure that mic is out of the camera shot. The person controlling the boom mic has a set of headphones connected to the camera so that they can hear the sound from the boom mic. The sound from the mic is recorded by the camera is auto syncs itself up with the footage.

In the editing stage we started of as always capturing all the footage from the cameras into Final Cut Express, once the capturing is finished then we could start editing all the clips together to put the in order. In vox pops the presenter asks the question one and then all of the responses follow. So in final cut we had to cut each individual answer from each person interviewed and then place all of the answers to a question with the presenter answering the question. Once we had finished this we then render the video into QuickTime then upload onto Youtube.

There are some minor things that we could have done better with our vox pop, a couple of times in the vox pop the boom mic would become visible in the shot. This is a minor fault but can definitely be corrected when it comes to using the boom mic again. Also, we should allow five seconds after pressing record before asking or answering questions, this way the beginning of a question or answer will not be cut off.