Week Two lesson 2 (Chris) Interview Contexts

Lesson 1 

The Aim of this session is to look at different types of interview and review similarities and differences that each Medium holds with it's corresponding interview examples.

• We will analyse and discuss different examples from a range of contexts.
• Evaluate Question types of the different interview types
• Review the different interview structures required by each medium
• Present your findings for each medium to the rest of the group.

Think about the medium.

Interviewing techniques definitely vary for different mediums. If you’re interviewing for audio or video, you want to ask two-part questions, which encourages subjects to talk for longer blocks of time.

Another great trick for audio interviews is to have your subject re-enact the story. It makes for good sound and helps you avoid having too much of your own narration later on. https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/13-simple-journalist-techniques-for-effective-interviews

Example: Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04tlfq5

Conversely, when you’re interviewing for print, try and break questions up so you can get shorter and more concise answers (easier for taking notes and for quoting later). You can be more conversational with interviews for print — you can say “yeah,” and “uh-huh,” etc. Not doing this is one of the biggest challenges when you’re interviewing for audio. Nodding and smiling accomplishes the same sort of conversational encouragement and keeps your tape clean.

In groups you will each look at an example from each of these Interview Types


Print
Film http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/hot-fuzz/

Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00723g0?

News
https://www.channel4.com/news/by/jon-snow