One of the challenges of conducting the vox pop interviews were finding people to interview, then going up to them to ask for an interview. I figured that the students who were walking around the school were probably headed to their classes and opted out of asking them. Instead, I asked the students who were sitting at the tables outside the lecture rooms as I thought that they would not be in a rush to go somewhere.

Another challenge I faced was that some of my interviewees were not entirely informed about the incident. After I asked them if they had heard about the Monica Baey incident, most of them would tell me that they did not know about it. However, when I re-phrased my question to ‘ are you aware of the recent NUS sexual misconduct case?’, they realised that they did know about the incident, just not its details. I had also provided them with the information about the incident which I had researched beforehand. For example, the punishments the perpetrator received as well as how Monica Baey had handled the case.

I think that the concepts taught during ‘the interview’ lesson were very relevant to my vox pop interviews. For example, researching the incident before interviewing people. This was very helpful to me, as like I have mentioned before, I was able to provide facts about the incident to my interviewees which had helped them to form their responses. I also think that being silent throughout the interview allowed the interviewees to think through what they thought about the subject matter and provide me with an honest response.

I do not think that listening to my interviewees was very difficult. I knew that it would take them some time to formulate the best possible response to my questions. They also did not stray too far from the topic and did not have long-winded answers which made it easier to understand their answers. I do not think that I struggled with formulating follow-up questions as they helped to elaborate points from the interviewee.