Remembrance day vox pop

Remembrance day Vox Pop evaluation:

Our challenge for radio, set at the beginning of November, was to go out in to Farnham and ask people the question, what does remembrance day mean to you? And what do you think of the government potentially scrapping the day?

I was in a group with Hazel Pace, Laura Battle and Matt Mansfield. We each took turns in asking people our questions and surprisingly most of the people we asked were pleased to answer our questions. The person I asked was a painter, who also just happened to be an ex soldier, and so he had very strong views on the subject. The majority of people that we asked thought that it shouldn’t be scrapped, that the people that have fought for our country should be remembered.

We got the chance to speak to a World War 2 veteran, who enlightened us as to why remembrance day is important to him and all of the survivors of the war as it gives them a chance to remember their friends and family members that were lost during the wars.

We managed to gather a good range of age groups ranging to the old to quite young in order to make our conclusions more balanced. However, when we tried to ask a couple of people from other countries, they preferred not to comment, one girl even saying on tape ‘I don’t know, I’m Danish.’

When we got back to the classroom we had to edit our recordings and create our vox pops. I used Sound booth to edit mine, I found it easy to use and managed to edit my piece well, however I had to cut out some people in order to get it down to 30 seconds. I decided to cut out the world war veteran due to the fact that he didn’t really answer our question, although he gave us rather insightful information. We then, once the recording was edited, had to use the website SoundCloud to upload the piece to my blog.

Overall, our project was a success and I had lots of fun working with my group. I was quite surprise how at ease we were with the equipment and software we had to use and would be able to use it again.