Alex
Victoria
Q. What can you tell me about question types?
A. Well there are 6 question types and these are open, closed, single, multiple, direct and suggestive.
Q. Can you tell us more about these?
A. So to start off with open and closed questions are very simple, a closed question would be a question that you can only give a yes or no answer too, and an open question would be the opposite.
Q. So a closed question would be ‘is it sunny today?’ and a open question would be ‘what is the weather like today?’
A. Yes exactly
Q. So now tell us about single and multiple questions?
A. A example of a multiple question would be ‘what did you have for your dinner, was it nice?’ because its two questions in one and a single question would just be ‘what did you have for your dinner?’
Q. Oh I see now lets move on to direct and suggestive.
A. So starting with a suggestive question, this is where the person asking the questions suggests the answer for example ‘the weather is so sunny today don’t you think?’ or ‘its really sunny today isn’t it?’ where as a direct question would be ‘what is the weather like today?’
Q. So now I want to move on to interview styling. What styles of interviews are there?
A. So the first style I will talk about is hard news, this is all the interviews you see on the news, where they might be at the scene of an event or an incident and they are interviewing the relevant people to give their opinions and get information to the viewer.
Q. So if m right, another style of interviewing is ‘light-hearted’ what can you tell me about this?
A. A Light-hearted interview is an interview that isn’t to serious. This could be a short small interview like you see in documentaries where they just ask the occasional question kind of like a conversation. A light- hearted interview can also be used sometimes in a job interview where the interviewer is trying to get to know the candidate.
Q. What type of an interview would it be when you see celebrities getting interviewed about their new tour, book or album?
A. This would be a promotional interview; these are used for people to promote their product, album, tour, book etc. The interviewer would ask questions to get answers out of that person that would persuade people to buy the product, donate money, buy tickets for the tour etc.
Q. Is there any more styles of interviews?
A. Yes another style of interviews would be investigative, which is quite obvious, this is used to investigate. This would be the type of interviews that the police use. The last to types of interviews would be Combative and Entertainment
Q: Why is it important to show good communication skills whilst interviewing somebody?
A: its important to have good communication skills when interviewing someone because the way you portray yourself can have a big impact on the way the audience and person your interviewing see you.
Q: so what do you think are important communication skills to have?
A: I feel like there are many skills you should have but being an active listener and showing positive body language are 2 of the more important.
Q: why do you feel that these are more important?
A: because if you show that you are an active listener people are more likely to want to answer questions when you interview them and if you show positive body language it is showing that you are interested in what they have to say.
I now want to kind of flip this round and ask you some questions about interviews seeing as you do this for your job and think you know what you’re doing.
Q: what are some purposes of interviews?
A: you can conduct interviews for research and enhancement of the audience understanding
Q: could you go into those in more detail?
A: well it is important to conduct interviews when researching certain things for example if you were researching a large company you may wish to interview some of the employees to find out more information about the company
Q: and what about the enhancement of audience understanding?
A: say you were presenting a show and you had a guest come on with an illness which isn’t known as well as it could be, you would interview the guest so that the audience could become more informed about the illness and help them understand more about it.
Q: Could you tell me something about informational interviews?
There are many different purposes of interviews and why people create them. For example, one interview purpose is informational. This is where the interview is created to present information that is useful for its audience. Interviews that present information are common on TV because presenters believe everyone will watch it to find out what they need about a specific topic.
Q: and what about interpretive?
We also have interpretive purpose for an interview. This is where the interview is produced to express or explain an opinion that has been mentioned before or has been questioned by others. This is also very common on the TV and it appears on many chat and magazine shows such as ‘Breakfast’ or even the ‘News’. Audience is always looking for answers and explanations and interpretive interview always tries and give that to their audience.
Q: there is also accountability? What’s that about?
An interview can also have a purpose for emotional reasons. This type of interview we commonly call Accountability. This is where the interview allows the audience insight into a situation. Usually they are based on people’s lives and what they have been through. They are interviewed about what it was like for them and how much it changed them. These types of interviews are commonly very strong and have a massive impact on the audience because the audience tend to feel sorry for the person that is being interviewed and what to listen to what they got to say for it.
Victoria
Q. What can you tell me about question types?
A. Well there are 6 question types and these are open, closed, single, multiple, direct and suggestive.
Q. Can you tell us more about these?
A. So to start off with open and closed questions are very simple, a closed question would be a question that you can only give a yes or no answer too, and an open question would be the opposite.
Q. So a closed question would be ‘is it sunny today?’ and a open question would be ‘what is the weather like today?’
A. Yes exactly
Q. So now tell us about single and multiple questions?
A. A example of a multiple question would be ‘what did you have for your dinner, was it nice?’ because its two questions in one and a single question would just be ‘what did you have for your dinner?’
Q. Oh I see now lets move on to direct and suggestive.
A. So starting with a suggestive question, this is where the person asking the questions suggests the answer for example ‘the weather is so sunny today don’t you think?’ or ‘its really sunny today isn’t it?’ where as a direct question would be ‘what is the weather like today?’
Q. So now I want to move on to interview styling. What styles of interviews are there?
A. So the first style I will talk about is hard news, this is all the interviews you see on the news, where they might be at the scene of an event or an incident and they are interviewing the relevant people to give their opinions and get information to the viewer.
Q. So if m right, another style of interviewing is ‘light-hearted’ what can you tell me about this?
A. A Light-hearted interview is an interview that isn’t to serious. This could be a short small interview like you see in documentaries where they just ask the occasional question kind of like a conversation. A light- hearted interview can also be used sometimes in a job interview where the interviewer is trying to get to know the candidate.
Q. What type of an interview would it be when you see celebrities getting interviewed about their new tour, book or album?
A. This would be a promotional interview; these are used for people to promote their product, album, tour, book etc. The interviewer would ask questions to get answers out of that person that would persuade people to buy the product, donate money, buy tickets for the tour etc.
Q. Is there any more styles of interviews?
A. Yes another style of interviews would be investigative, which is quite obvious, this is used to investigate. This would be the type of interviews that the police use. The last to types of interviews would be Combative and Entertainment
Q: Why is it important to show good communication skills whilst interviewing somebody?
A: its important to have good communication skills when interviewing someone because the way you portray yourself can have a big impact on the way the audience and person your interviewing see you.
Q: so what do you think are important communication skills to have?
A: I feel like there are many skills you should have but being an active listener and showing positive body language are 2 of the more important.
Q: why do you feel that these are more important?
A: because if you show that you are an active listener people are more likely to want to answer questions when you interview them and if you show positive body language it is showing that you are interested in what they have to say.
I now want to kind of flip this round and ask you some questions about interviews seeing as you do this for your job and think you know what you’re doing.
Q: what are some purposes of interviews?
A: you can conduct interviews for research and enhancement of the audience understanding
Q: could you go into those in more detail?
A: well it is important to conduct interviews when researching certain things for example if you were researching a large company you may wish to interview some of the employees to find out more information about the company
Q: and what about the enhancement of audience understanding?
A: say you were presenting a show and you had a guest come on with an illness which isn’t known as well as it could be, you would interview the guest so that the audience could become more informed about the illness and help them understand more about it.
Q: Could you tell me something about informational interviews?
There are many different purposes of interviews and why people create them. For example, one interview purpose is informational. This is where the interview is created to present information that is useful for its audience. Interviews that present information are common on TV because presenters believe everyone will watch it to find out what they need about a specific topic.
Q: and what about interpretive?
We also have interpretive purpose for an interview. This is where the interview is produced to express or explain an opinion that has been mentioned before or has been questioned by others. This is also very common on the TV and it appears on many chat and magazine shows such as ‘Breakfast’ or even the ‘News’. Audience is always looking for answers and explanations and interpretive interview always tries and give that to their audience.
Q: there is also accountability? What’s that about?
An interview can also have a purpose for emotional reasons. This type of interview we commonly call Accountability. This is where the interview allows the audience insight into a situation. Usually they are based on people’s lives and what they have been through. They are interviewed about what it was like for them and how much it changed them. These types of interviews are commonly very strong and have a massive impact on the audience because the audience tend to feel sorry for the person that is being interviewed and what to listen to what they got to say for it.