Monday 11 October 2010

Planning

Interview questions

Interview with the public, Voxpops.
1. How often do you drink tea?
2. At what age did you start drinking tea?
3. How much sugar do you take in tea?
4. What type of tea do you drink (brand)?
5. When do you drink tea most?
6. Who would you associate tea with? What kind of person or age would you think would be most likely to drink tea e.g. Old people?
7. Do you see tea as a way socialise e.g. Offering tea to guests, manors, tradition?
8. Do you ever drink tea to calm out e.g. Receiving bad news, having a bad day at work etc.? Tell me how it feels.
9. Have you ever offered tea to someone in this way ( receiving bad news, having a bad day etc.) e.g. a way to comfort them.
10. Do you take any biscuits with your tea? If yes, what kind?
11. What does tea mean to you?
12. What country would you have thought tea originated from
13. Which country do you think drinks the most tea?

Interview with elderly person and young person
Some of questions from voxpops.
• How often do you drink tea?
• When do you prefer to drink tea?
• What does tea mean to you?
• How old were you when you started drinking tea
• Can you remember your first cup of tea?
• Can you tell the difference between brands of tea, or do they all taste the same?
• What is it about tea you like so much? Why not something else?
• Who else in your family drinks tea?
• Do you think tea is traditionally English?
• Do you think the tradition of tea is fading ( being a typically British tradition)
• Do you think tea could still be as common in peoples homes in 50 years?
• What brand of tea do you drink, have you always drank and is there any specific reason for that?

Questions for Lancashire Tea Room, Warrington.
Interviewing either over the counter or sitting at one of the tables.
• What made you want to open a tea shop and want to bring this traditional tea house to Warrington, is it something you passionate about? Did you have much support from the public?
• How much tea do you sell on an average day?
• Can you make the perfect cup of tea?
• How popular is the branch compared to other competition like ‘star bucks’ and ‘Costa coffee’
• How much do you charge for you tea? Do you think it’s a lot?
• Do you use a variety of brands in your shop or stick to one particular type?
• When is the busiest time of the day for people to order tea?
• Is it your most popular drink or do you find people coming in asking for other things?
• What kind of age range to you find in here most often?
• Do you think tea will still be as popular in 50 years time?
• The image of your shop seems quite modern for a traditional tea room? Is that to appeal to other ages?
• How much do you prefer your own tea, would you drink it yourself what would you recommend to the public?

Interview with supermarket
1. How popular is tea compared to other drinks?
2. In particular, how have the sales of tea compared to coffee?
3. Do you notice a difference between the sales of tea and coffee?
4. How have sales of tea been compared to when you first started working here?
5. Does herbal tea sell well here? How have sales of herbal tea compared to when you first started working here?
6. What kind of people do you see buying tea?
7. How many brands of tea do you sell?
8. Which brand is the most popular?
9. What time of a year would you say is the best time for tea

Questions for sociologists
1. What kind of people do you associate with tea?
2. Do you think that tea plays a big part of society in Britain? Why is this?
3. Why do you think that people offer tea to others when they have guests? Can you try to explain this?
4. How do you think that tea helps people to relax?
5. Do you think that tea links to any sociological theories? How?


we have also drawn a single shot for each of our interviews, which will help us with the framing when we come to actually film.
this is a plan for our interview with a young person.








This is our interview with a sociologist.









This is our interview with Anette our elderly person






This is our interview with a person who works in a supermarket














We also storyboarded our introduction.
















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