For this sketch, we extracted inspiration from reality TV shows like ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ and ‘The Voice’. There are segments in these TV shows that feature characters telling their life story or how they got to where they are today. From there, we wanted a sketch where vlog reviews would adapt other people’s opinions, giving the whole thing a fresh perspective.

Rather than only having a reviewer’s thoughts or opinions on a certain thing or place, you would also get to hear experiences from others (eg. cafe owner, shareholder or customer). From there, viewers get to understand the back story of a certain place, or how a specific thing came about. It would then not be a one-sided story, but one that contains collected opinions from different perspectives. Viewers would be able to get the full picture of a particular place or product, and may even adopt emotional feelings towards it.

We did want to conduct an interview with one of the owners of Short Stop, but felt that it would be too time-consuming and probably even a little difficult. Why we say this is because after approaching them personally, they told us that they could instead reply our interview questions via e-mail instead of conducting an actual video interview.