Piece Comment

Review for Occupy Chapel Hill


In this stirring vox pop, producer Sunny Osment tells of her local Occupy demonstation. Having attended a similar event in New York, she wanted to see if there were similarities in Chapel Hill.
This piece is a great example of a vox pop, as it uses a myriad of voices to inform the listener and to help understand why and what people are protesting. Doing this allows the listeners to understand firsthand from the people who attended, helping with the effectiveness of the piece.
My favorite thing about the piece was the format used by the producer. Sunny talks only in the introduction of the vox pop and from there on lets her interviewees tell the story of Occupy Chapel Hill. I felt that this was very effective and a primer example of a vox pop.

Clearer audio would enhance this piece. Some of the background noise was a little distracting, Sunny's ending could have been smoother. The piece just ends and you don’t know if there is going to be another demonstration, and if the movement is growing. It needed a narrator to re-enter the piece and give the listener things to think about or draw some parallels to the demonstration she saw in New York.

Overall, this piece is a prime example of a vox pop.