For the radio assignment myself, Charlotte, Stacey, Jamie and Mike worked in a group of five. Our brief was to record a VOX POP about people’s thoughts on Remembrance Day. We went out to Farnham high street and stopped a member of the public each and asked them ‘Do you think Remembrance Day is as relevant as it once was?’
It was a new experience for me to approach people on the street and to ask them questions, some people are willing to talk whereas others appear too busy and walk on past. Some members of the public seemed to be put off by the recording equipment but once they realised we were students they were happy to help. As we were filming on the street there was lots of background noises such as traffic and people, which was picked up on the recording.
Although we all worked as a group, we also each asked a member of the public a question each so we could all practice our interviewing techniques. We approached the public by firstly telling them that we were students and we were carrying out the interview as part of our assignment, this seem to be the person at ease and they were happy to answer the question. We each had a different technique so all of our answers were slightly different which was good.
I found the editing tricky, as we had to edit our own voice out and just have the person answering the question. Also some people didn’t say much or their answer wasn’t meaningful to the question. Next time I would aim to ask the person a question in a quieter place and also ask a many people as I can, so I had lots of options when it came down to editing.
Individually, we also had to write two radio news stories and record them. I found this enjoyable and was interested in how the equipment in a radio studio works.
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