#PGCEmix Interview part 3

I think I am ready for my first dry run.....
Testing my questions on classmates.

Watch this space for the results.

Nervous, not so much, just excited to see how it will go.  I also enlisted the services of an classmate to help record the interviews and if I "graduate" to the next phase I will progress to video.  (Taking baby steps here.)

The material on the internet that I worked through were very helpful and there are some great learning opportunities available.  Some sites include support as well.

I did read a bit about the setting up of questions, (open ended, humoristic, content appropriate) and about doing interviews in person or over email or phone.  I think I prefer to do in person interviews, especially because I would like to be able to get to know the people I interview a little better and a phone or email is just too impersonal.  Sure there is some valid reasons for using other options.

About 12 questions - open and closed ended. Tounge in cheek and  tell it as it is. The test will be in how they do with the actual interview, and of course how I put that into writing. 


Will you find it interesting?


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#PGCEmix - learning to do an interview part 2

Polar bears should always be interviewed in person.



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#pgcemix I want to learn...

I want to learn how to conduct an interview with a public figure and write it as an article.

This is something I wanted to do for a while and this assignment is my opportunity to "get on with it".

Let me start with a strategy:

• Google, read and set up some questions.
• Do some interviews to practice and gain some experience. I will need some guinea pigs.  (Surely among my class I there will be some bribe-able candidates.)
• Next I will also visit the journalistic department and see if I can glean from them.
• Then, if I am brave enough, I will seek out a public figure or two to interview.

Sounds like a plan to me.