Vox Pop - Results

After walking around Norwich city center for around an hour, we managed to get three people's opinions, which isn't all too great. The reason for this was many people simply didn't stop or walked away from us when we were trying to ask questions.

Out of the three people we stopped, one of these was recorded using the camera on our phone, as seen below:

As this was not enough data to fully count as a vox pop, we decided to continue the investigation at school, asking fellow members of sixth form the same questions. The results can be seen below:

Voxpop

Later today, our media group is travelling to Norwich to conduct a voxpop. Vox pop, or vox populi as it is fully known, simply means voice of the people and is a term commonly used in broadcasting.

During this vox pop, Ned and I will ask the public a series of short questions about television channel websites, to help get a good idea of what to create later on. The questions that we will ask will include the following:

1. Do you visit the BBC's website?
2. For what reason do you visit this website? (Check the news, look at a programme guide, find weather information)
3. What other television channel websites do you visit?
4. What is the first thing you notice on a website such as the BBC's? (such as design, pictures, information etc)

When I return from Norwich later this evening, I wil post the results of the vox pop

First Steps...

As part of our work in class last week, we were set a task to create a pitch for our product.

Aften several minutes of writing ideas, I cut the list down to the following three:

• A new TV channel, unlike the rest, showing you what life is really like
• A brand new channel, showing you the alternate side to life
• Life isn't all bright on static, a new channel that shows you the alternate side to life

As you can tell, our fictional television channel (possibly called Static) focuses on everything alternate. The channel would reveal the other side of life, showing programmes like Louis Theroux's documentaries.

Whilst my mind was working, I came up with a colour scheme for the channel's website and multimedia items. The colours throughout the product will be primarily green, grey and black. These colours go well together and create a mise en scene that is bright and vibrant, but also different to most, matching the products main aim.

More is to come in the following days, including more ideas, a caption and a simple plan of the product.

Research

Before I can get onto making my actual product, I must conduct research to gain an idea on what to create.

I have split this research up into different categories:

• Existing Websites - comparing many different websites that already exist. 
• Existing Websites (Advanced) - Looking deeper into a select group of websites, comparing what type of content they contain, how many people use them daily and why they are like how they are.
• History - investigating how long television channels have had their own websites and how they have changed as the internet has progressed.
  
• Audience Research - looking into what type of people would  use my final product.
• First Hand Experience - travel to a company that specialises in web design - take ideas and interview members of staff.
• Vox pop - travel to Norwich and ask members of the public about the opinions.

F1RST

This is the first post on my brand new blog made especially for my A2 Media Studies course.

On this blog I will post all of the stages and work that goes into making my final product, a website for a fictional television channel. 

Keep checking back to see how I am doing and to see my final product when it is complete.