Purpose - The main purpose of this interview was to make people aware of the charity that we were interviewing and making a documentary on. This is the outcome we wanted to achieve and so we thought, as well as the documentary, that we would create an interview with the founders of the charity and place this on Youtube so there were more ways than one for people to find out about The Quicken Trust.
As we had made a documentary on this charity, we decided that we should include the interview into it, so that, again, people could see it in more places than just YouTube once we had finally uploaded it. And so people would mainly see this interview on a television documentary, or it could be made into a documentary film about what they do out there and how they help people in Uganda.
We wanted to inspire people about what these founders of The Quicken Trust do and how they take volunteers out every year so that people can help in the jobs that they do. It is also to explain to people why Uganda has ended up in the poverty stricken way it is in now and how we can help them.
Interview Planning - As we had to travel to the headquarters for the Quicken Trust, which is situated in Hailsham, we had about 2 weeks emailing both Geoff and Geraldine, the founders of the charity, to organise a date which suited both of us. This was a bit of a struggle as we all had college and they had 2 weeks to spare before they flew out to Uganda and stayed there for 3 months on another project that they were starting. We finally decided on a saturday morning, which we discussed with our work managers, and we were all free. We travelled up there in two cars, as we could all drive, Lauren and I in my car and then Johnny in his car with all of the camera equipment because he had top of the range recording equipment and it took up a lot of space. We needed a place that was well lit and where there was no noise which would interfere with the recording. They decided to take us into their living room as it was hidden away from the main road and it was really quiet, which was perfect. We then had to set up the camera equipment and check the sound settings, which didn't take too long because we were all trained on how to use a camera and check the settings.
Structuring - For the opening of our interview, we asked them to introduce themselves and explain what it is they did within the charity and what the Quicken Trust was. This, we thought, would be a good opening to our documentary and we could easily edit this and have a video of what the Quicken Trust did after this introduction. Once they had done this, we asked them many questions about what they did within the charity and what they got volunteers to do, each question was gradually built up to give an overall description of the charity and what their aim is and where they achieve to see themselves in 5 years time.
Preparation - Before we started the interview we asked each of them to sign a talent release form which showed our tutor that we had their permission to film them in their house and to broadcast everything that they said. We agreed that we would email them the documentary before we put it on YouTube and broadcast it to the college at the end of year show, so that they could listen to it and tell us if we had got all the information right and whether they were okay with themselves being seen on YouTube. We briefed them on the questions that we would be asking them and allowed them time to think of what they were going to say, making them feel relaxed by complimenting their home and asking them questions away from the interview, about their interests and everything. This was a light hearted yet educational interview which contained humour but also inspired and educated people about the charity.
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