Planning

Planning

Here are the questions we used in our four interviews used in our documentary :

Questions for Richard, Dad of 4 year old :

1. How old is your child?

2. Are you part of a big family?

3. Does your child watch a lot of TV adverts?

4. How does he react to the toy adverts on the TV?

5. Which adverts grab his attention the most and why?

6. How does he behave if he doesn't get what he wants?

7. Do you give into his demands? How often? Why?

8. Does he receive pocket money? How much? Why?

9. Would you say that your child is influenced by his friends to get certain toys/things?

10. How big is his Christmas list and how expensive are the gifts he wants?

11. Do you feel pressure with the expense of the gifts? How do you manage?

12. Did you have different expectations at Christmas/birthdays when you were a child than your son does now?

13. What was the most expensive thing you were given as a child?

14. Do you give to charity? Why?

Questions for Jean 73:

1. How many presents did you get for Christmas/birthdays as a child? What type of presents were they?

2. Do you think children get more spent on them at Christmas/birthdays now

3. Why do you think that is?

4. What type of things do you buy for your grandchildren?

5. When you were a child, was there a toy you really wanted but you never got?

6. If yes, why do you think you didn't get this toy?

7. What influenced the toys you wanted as a child?

8. Do you think people are happier nowadays?

Questions for Leanne, 17 :

1.What do you spend most of your money on?

2. How much money a week do you spend?

3. Do celebrities in the media have an effect on your buying choices? If so, how?

4. What would you buy if you won the lottery?

5. What is your most expensive purchase? Why did you buy it?

6. Do you give money to charity? Why?

Questions for Mike Whitmore, Teacher of banking and Ex banker:

1. What’s the biggest transaction you’ve ever processed?

2. Do you think that during your time in banking people have got greedier?

3. What do you teach your pupils in terms of customer financial responsibility?

4. Have you noticed whether people are still greedy even during the recession?

5. What is the most expensive thing you’ve ever know someone to buy?

6. What would you buy if you won the lottery?

7. Was it greed that triggered the global recession?