Task 1 (Unit 36:P1,M1,D1) Individually
Final Deadline: Friday 05th May 2017, 12 Noon to the Media Technicians Office
Understand Interview Purposes and Techniques
To demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the styles and techniques used by professional interviewers and/or journalists you will produce a recorded commentary Or Written report in which you will:
- Comprehensively explain the interview techniques used by professional interviewers or journalists with elucidated examples and consistently using subject terminology correctly.
- Select and investigate a range of interviews conducted by professionals.
- Layout your audio/report commentary to those relevant selected video clips and/or screen shots of print interviews as follows:
- Use the following interview techniques as headings:
- Question types (open, closed, single, multiple, direct, suggestive);
- Interview styling, e.g. hard news, combative, light-hearted, entertainment, investigative, promotional;
- Structuring (introduction, developmental questions, confidence building, key questions, soundbites, summary, wind- up);
- Communication skills, e.g. building rapport, active listening, body language;
- Telephone techniques, e.g. gathering information, obtaining comments
- Choose your examples from a variety of Journalistic contexts (print, TV, radio, online, news, sport, feature-writers, editorial), making sure that you cover ALL the different purposes of interviews (research; enhancement of audience understanding; informational; interpretive; emotional)
Your work should cover:
Interview techniques: question types (open, closed, single, multiple, direct, suggestive);
Interview styling, e.g. hard news, combative, light-hearted, entertainment, investigative, promotional;
Structuring (introduction, developmental questions, confidence building, key questions, soundbites, summary, wind- up);
Communication skills, e.g. building rapport, active listening, body language; telephone techniques, e.g. gathering information, obtaining comments
Interview styling, e.g. hard news, combative, light-hearted, entertainment, investigative, promotional;
Structuring (introduction, developmental questions, confidence building, key questions, soundbites, summary, wind- up);
Communication skills, e.g. building rapport, active listening, body language; telephone techniques, e.g. gathering information, obtaining comments
Journalistic contexts: print, television, radio, online, news, sport, feature-writers, editorial
Purposes of interviews: research; enhancement of audience understanding; informational, e.g. presenting information; interpretive, e.g. expressing or explaining opinion, justification, accountability; emotional, e.g. allowing audience insight to a situation
