As we near closer to filming, i wanted to look into the art of interviewing. A main component of our documentary will be out two main interviews, one with Jake which will be a reflective piece about his about how he coped with his digital detox - containing mostly open questions that will allow Jake to explain to us everything he felt whilst doing his detox and having no use of social media. Secondly we are going to be interviewing an expert in the field, someone who will be able to provide some context to our audience about what we are trying to present on screen. Therefore there are two main things i wanted to look at - how to set up an interview and how to create the best questions to achieve the answers we want to achieve. Looking into a website these are the 10 main advice points for a good interview1) Prepare your questions
Have questions ready fully related to the topic at hand
2) Avoid 'yes' or 'no' questions\
Only want to attract feelings and long answers, yes or no provide no real substance for an interview
3) Prepare, but be spontaneous
Preparation is key, you don't want to appear to your interviewee like you don't know what you're doing, having question prepared is very important but remember that more questions may come up in your mind based on their answers and that is okay
4) Make the interviewee comfortable
In order to achieve maximum honesty from the interviewee in terms of their answers you have to make them feel comfortable
5) Don't give out specific questions in advance
Giving out the questions in advance would give the interviewee chance to prepare answers - think about what they want to say, we want first impressions so we cannot give the questions out in advanceThe following are more just points that we as a group need to think about when filming the interview:
6) Get the interviewee to repeat the question
7) Proper positioning of interviewee
8) Keep your mouth shut
9) Ask for a final comment
10) Don't stop filming when the interview is over
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