Pilot focus group

Reflecting back on the pilot of the focus group interview my group learnt that we were not aswell prepared as we could of been when it came to questions about how we used, challenged and developed conventions of real media products. At the moment my group is at the secondary stage of research into soap operas as we are still brainstorming how we are going to challenge, use and develop these conventions. Previous to the interview i feel my group should of had a meeting to discuss and make clear where exactly we are in our stage of research so we could all be clear on eachothers research and ideas about the codes and conventions of media products, and how it would effect our product. Therefore our interview could of ran more smoothly if we had preplanned and brainstormed ideas.
The pilot interview even though not as successful as expected still gave my group an insight as to what a real focus group is going to be like. We realised that the group of people that we are going to interview will not have as much knowledge and background as the media students we practiced with had, therefore my group came to the agreement that we will generalise our question leaving more room for them to expand on the matter rather than us going into to much detail and having the risk of them not understanding.