Vox Pops Planning

Shot 1 – News, direct address, person is centred, informing the audience

 

Shot 2 – Talk show, chat show, over the shoulder, very casual and friendly

 

Shot 3 – News report, in the place of action, outside broadcast, factual information, documentary

 

Shot 4 – Asking people questions in public, ideal for Vox Pops, not looking to the camera (talking to someone off screen), indirect gaze, setting and background looks busy (public area), interviewing a member of public

Conventions of Vox Pops

-Latin for Vox Populi

-“Voice of the people”

-“Man on street”

-To learn opinions and ideas

-Ask questions of what people like about thrillers

Essential conventions

-Question is visible as a title, you don’t hear the question being asked

-Straight into the answers from the public

-People’s names are given, age and occupation at the bottom left of the screen, not there for too long

-Close-up/Medium shot

-Scenes are short and snappy

-People looking off screen at someone, indirect gaze

-Show the busy background to make it obvious where they are

-Eye-line on the right of screen on the first line of Rule of Thirds

-Ask all questions one after the other with the same person, then move on and film someone else, then edit all the questions together

-Each person is on screen for about 3 seconds, prevents the audience -from getting bored

-Don't have the interviewer on the screen, only the interviewee