October 1997
Beginner
160 pages
4h 32m
English
Eye-witness or spot interviews seek mostly factual information, so this is where the old-fashioned journalistic ability to persuade someone to talk to the camera comes to the fore. Eye-witnesses to accidents, other disasters, and crime, provide the stuff of hard-news reporting, and such interviews are probably the easiest to conduct. There is no mystique to the technique, but do not go blundering in with questions which are insensitive or intrusive.
The generally accepted accuracy of opinion polls has tended to make the use of vox pops (vox populi) in television news programmes appear out-dated. They were probably never intended as anything more than a cross-section of views taken at random, but they had the ...
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