Assignment 4

For assignment for we were asked to conduct a series of interviews with people we didnt know to further our reseach into primary research techniques. I did my interview with two of my fellow class mates, stephen and sam this was due to my personal pilot interviews not going to plan. i felt that the 3 of us made the people we interviewed more comforable and less intimidated. for the questions we ask we decided to go with a project we all had knowledge of wich was food due to our scri project. All together we conducted 6 interview on the new first year.

The questions asked were:

- Describe your favorite meal?

- What makes this special?

- How does the environment effect the experience?

- What would you do if your received a bad looking meal?

- Would you taste it first?

- If a meal looked nice but still tasted bad what would be your actions?

From these questions we gained a variation of answers however overall we gained the information that most people prefer to be in a comfortable environment when eating a meal. by comfortable they meant in a family home were they could easily ask for a bigger portion or say if they didn't like something. the majority of people said that when they got a meal from their gran it took them to a different stage in there life,early childhood.

The people who wanted to eat out gave different answers regarding sending back food that they ordered. Some people would defiantly send it back as they were paying were as others wouldn't and continue to eat the unpleasant food. Every one agree that they would try the food no matter what it looked like and if the food looked good but tasted bad they felt it was there fault.

After this we went to the canteen and discussed our findings with the rest of our class mates. i found this exercise helpful as it helped us to fully understand the data we had gathered as well as getting the chance to give my opinion on there chosen subject. In the future i would re-look at our questions and make them more specific.