After encountering quite a few issues trying to get interviews for our concept, we had to readjust our approach in order to get as many interviews and, most importantly, pieces of audio as possible within a releativly short period of time.  

After re-writing our interview questions we went to test them in the university’s student bar. This proved to be an incredibly valuable test, the experience of interviewing fellow students at the university revealed the solutions to the main problems we faced during our initial interview trips. The first being that we found students were much more willing to speak to us, even if it was to answer less questions then in a formal interview, some of them even going as far as getting friends of theirs to answer our questions too. Our quick test run of new questions and interview technique ended up being far more successful than our official attempts.  

A second major advantage to interviewing students at the university was the ethical dilemma surrounding interview consent forms and gaining permission to broadcast any recordings. We found that members of the public and bar staff in the other pubs were, understandably, sceptical about being recorded and quite literally having their opinions put on the record and even potentially broadcasted publicly. There is also the issue of pubs being private property and in order to record on the premises, even for a student project, you need permission from the owner or at least a member of staff. Recording on university grounds meant we did not have to seek permission to record on site, especially given the recording was part of a student project that was already approved by the university in the first place. An advantage of interviewing fellow LCC students as that they are all used to projects being recorded and filmed around the campus and didn’t find it off putting that we were recording the conversation/interview and were happy to have it broadcasted if needed. The same was true for the staff there, as a student ran bar there was no need for the staff to request permission from a landlord or management to be interviewed and there was no potential danger of them facing issues at work for giving an interview.