Lesson 7 Interviewing

Interview

Notes

q You use people and will be used

q You will be trusted and told secrets

q told inadequate or more than enough

q irrelevant answers

q lied to

q told things they ask, peg or threaten not to publish

q respected and sometimes disrespected

simply

q Be open and friendly

q Ask clear short and specific questions

q Follow answers (listen)

q Push interviewee to keep talking

Interview Stages

q Before interview

q While interview

q After interview

Before interview

q plan

• Choose a main topic

• What kind of answers you want

• Make clear why you do the interview, for news, report, or direct interview

q Research

• Google the interview to know more about him

• Scan newspapers and websites to learn more about the topic

• Scan recent statements and interviews of your target

q List questions

• Note down a number of question

• You should how many questions you could ask

q Appointment

• Always identify place and time of interview

• For very VIP, do it via secretary

• Make sure of appointment a short while (like 30 minutes) before starting interview

q Equipments

• Use more than one tools, one of them necessarily notebook

• Check your tools: your pen writes, recorders records, have enough battery and enough blank paper, tape or digital space

• Check again minutes before starting

q Dress properly

• You can’t go for interviewing ministers and slum inhabitants in the same dress

q And take it easy

While interview

q Chitchat start

• Introduce yourself

• Have friendly chat before you throw your questions

• Explain about the aim of your interview

• Friendly talk about the topic

• Ask about how it is going on (you may catch new news)

• Shortly show your questions

• Ask if you can ask every questions, or

• How to start questions, from hard to easy or vise versa

• Prepare and check your tools

Be friendly and take it easy

While Interview

q Sit with interviewee, near, open and friendly

q Ask without explanation

q Ask brief and specific

• Don't ask what you think about the student

• But, ask what you think about the spread of swine flu among the students, or specify more

• Don’t ask what you think about women issue

• But ask about illiteracy among women

q Listen don’t be busy much with noting down, taking picture

q Follow, ask questions you make from answers

q Show interest to the answers

q Let the interviewee complete his speech

q But also, Interrupt when boring

q Repeat your question in other way to make sure or when the interviewee tries escaping

q Don’t do “ahm, yes, right……” (especially for TV and Radio)

q Don’t run out of questions (you have a list)

q Not necessarily ask all your questions

q Ask if he has anything to add or to make sure

q You make sure of infos, numbers and names

q Get profile and contact

q Talk about possible future interview

q Ending chat