My Chronicle Week- Day 4

Now all of the Vox Pop interviews have been collected, the task was to watch the footage through and rough cut it so that we had 1-2 minutes worth of clear, helpful footage that will give the public and ourselves an idea about what the public think about 16 year olds voting and the interest in politics. 

Here is the draft edit of the video:


Along with the video that we hope will be displayed on the website, I felt it would be a good idea to write a short article including some of the facts I had researched previously so that there would be some statistics alongside the opinions. The facts I included were based on the Scottish referendum as 16 year olds were given the right to vote on that and it turned out to be successful.

As well as the facts about the referendum, I included the fact I found about more young people voting on the X-Factor than the general election. When I presented this fact to Alex, he thought it would be a good idea to include it as even people who don't have an interest in politics will be able to relate to this fact, it could potentially make the article more exciting.

I drafted the article that could potentially introduce the video on the website:

After showing Ben the article we decided to make a couple changes so that it was slightly more concise and we swapped the paragraphs around so that there weren't three paragraphs in a row all with rhetorical questions. We also altered the headline to make it slightly more snappy.

As the political video idea is starting to look more solid. I decided to try and produce my own article linked to my own interests and also the interest of lots of teenagers. I have a mean interest in music, and as Laura Doggett, a previous Bath college students who is making it in the music industry visited the college recently, I thought it would be good to do a follow up to find out what current students expect to get from the course. Also I want to find out what the lecturers aim to lead the students towards.

I have made an outline of some questions that I intend to ask the students and lecturers so I can use their answers as quotes in my article.

Student questions:

- What made you want to study music?

- What opportunities does the course give you to help you in the music industry?

- Does the success of Laura Doggett and Gabrielle Aplin make you feel as though you have an equal chance?

- What do you expect the course to lead you towards in the future?

Lecturer questions: 

- Is your aim as a lecturer to try and make every student famous in the music business?

- Do you feel as though the students wan to follow in Laura and Gabrielle's footsteps or are they more independent?

- Do you have hope that many students will turn out like Laura and Gabrielle?

- What would be your three top tips to your students to develop their success?

I made a phone call to the music department at college and they were more than happy to get some students and a lecturer involved in answering some questions.

Then I went ahead and asked some of the students and one of the lecturers the questions and recorded their answers as voice recordings. They were all really helpful and I used their responses are a basis for my article.

Alex was very impressed with my article and gave me some feedback on how to make it compete. He also said that our group was the most enthusiastic he's had so far which is great news!