Friday, April 3, 2009

Vox Pops Take Two

I tried again today for some more vox pops. Back to Kippax again.

Pretty much similar success this time. This first woman I accosted seemed incredibly reluctant to answer, but yet didn't say no, so I launched into it and she gave me a beautiful response.

I also tried aiming for a few younger people, but I found their responses tend to be very straight-forward. Maybe they're nervous being in front of a mike. Which is quite understandable.

Saw some cops at the shops too, and was tempted to go ask them, but they were busy hassling some kids that smelled like pot, so my companion and I thought we'd leave them to it.

I heard a lot of people talking recently about their technical stuff-ups when doing the vox pops, and I thought I had escaped, having done mine well the other day. However, today I realised that I may have had the mike switched off for a couple of interviews. :P

I also found that I was too "stop-happy", cutting off people when I thought they were finished again. I learned by the last vox pop I did, and I kept recording for a change, but he finished talking as he was walking away, and naturally made the best comment last. I hope its turned out alright.

So, I've yet to listen to all of them, but hopefully most of these ones turned out okay.

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