INTERVEWING

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INTERVEWING

• Different experiences try to act as partner
• Be positive, not familiar, respectful, not a
  suck-up
• What are the advantages of trust?
• Be natural
• Nervousness

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Formulating the message

• The justification, what gives you the right to
  spend audiences time
• The unwritten rule on interviewing If the
  person agrees with the interview, she/he agrees
  that he is answering to the questions and you are
  asking them
• Interview is conversation, an organic game
  between two or more individuals
• Important is not only to ask, but to ask, to
  listen and to react according to the situation.

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What is the status of interviewee?

• What might the interviewee think?
• - not to make the interview at all
• to leave a best possible impression
• To look smart, funny, look good be suportive
•  The interviewee can be courious, hostile,
  afraid, looking for respect, etc. Your task is to
  feel that and act accordingly.

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• Show some interest towards the person they will
  open up
• Usually people want to open
• Speak about him/her, be curious, whats new in its
  life.
• People are afraid of unknown try to be good,
  open, graceous.
• After the interview, thank, courage, approve, if
  possible, promise something.

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• Ask questions, what people want You to ask
• If You can not present your oppinion, present it
  as a problem or possibility.
• Avoid questions, that everyone asks
• Try to make a story out of the interview, develop
• Surprise the interviwee with knowledge of facts
  that it doesnt think You know.
• Make the interviwee tell.

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Types of questions

• open questions
• closed questions
• primary questions
• subsidiary or secondary questions, follow-ups
• neutral questions
• leading questions

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The art of interviewing

• Main goals and aims
• collecting and providing information and
  opinions
• providing entertainment as in talk-shows
• Think up fresh questions work with them.

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• phrase your questions carefully
• ask one question at a time
• ask questions directly, then WAIT for answers
• ask questions that demand more than a yes-or-no
  answer
• avoid leading questions
• base your questions on fact not on fiction
• avoid loaded questions
• ask about motives and objectives
• introduce conflicting points of view
• sometimes you can agree not to ask certain
  questions
• probe gently for emotions

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Shooting

• shoot cutaways reverses video only
• stand-ups justification, points, length,
  background, bridges

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Types of interview

• fact-oriented interview
• problem-oriented interview
• experience-oriented interview
• portrait interview
• surroundings-oriented interview
• poll-questions
• interviewing in a talk-show

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The framework

• preparation
• choosing the type of interview
• asking questions
• guiding
• repeating
• clarifying
• listening
• shooting (shoots the camera is getting)
• microphones
• batteries
• tape

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Preparation

• know the topic under the discussion well 60 of
  the questions should be quessed.
• The focus! only a fool starts to think of the
  questions while drinving to the location.
• find out in advance the interviewees position and
  attitudes towards the issue
• be familiar with the interviewees background
• have a clear idea of your interview
• write questions in advance
• save your questions for the interview
• take some time to concentrate
• If possible do not use the hand mic

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Guiding

• the goal is a usable tape
• interviewing should be tightly controlled
• advice the interviewees to keep the answers short
  and to the point
• explain the interviewee how to behave in front of
  the camera
• interviewing requires firmness and friendliness
• remember that you control the pace
• You can slightly nod, but

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Listening

• The reporters must be able to do simultaneously
  at least 4 different things
• guiding the interview
• following the interviewee
• thinking up the questions
• clarifying statements
• Show that you are interested in what is said

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Repeating

• interviewees want to manage in the best possible
  way
• dont be afraid to ask interviewee to say
  something again
• dont be afraid to repeat your question
• dont be afraid to ask the interviewee to repeat
  his/her statement for the second or third time
• repeating could make the answer shorter and more
  precise

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Clarifying

• Remember that you are the viewers representative
• Rise the questions the viewer might have
• Be ready to interrupt the interviewee for
  explanations if needed
• You are responsible for the clarity and
  understandability of the interview
• The person being interviewed should be told to
  look only at the interviewer, not into the
  camera, or somewhere else.

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interviewing tips

• Pascale and Turner 1981, yardsticks
• Strategy how to act
• Structure to headline the topics
• System details (studio, outside, public)
• Style your own signature
• Skills know-how, experiences, competence
• In TV we think about these yardsticks before we
  do the interview, not after!

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Interviewing tips

• For successful performance
• Curiosity you want to know, how things are
• Willing ear you want to be a good listener
• Intuition ability to imagine yourself into
  someone elses skin
• Specification of the character
• Talent personality is talent
• Self-confidence calm and dominative

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Interviewing tips

• Ambitious passion, love towards the profession
• Intelligence analise willingly and react with
  the over-sound-speed
• Be suspicious Dont believe everything you are
  told
• Develop read, examine the facts, colorful and
  wide use of words, learn

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Interviewing tips

• Be saucy but to that without loosing the respect
• Understanding of the journalism always look at
  the big picture
• Fortune Fortune is in love with the capable
  Persian saying. If there are no possibilities,
  then really are.