This would be the type of interview that would be found on a radio station, having being pre recorded and being played back to the audience. Only on some radio stations that have debates like this, so not a radio station like Radio One. More like Radio Two, as they have weekly debates about issues and this could be a good one to bring up.
Also, on some television programmes which broadcast the news, such as BBC and ITV, they have voiceovers of what people have been recorded saying in interviews, with only a map of where they are talking from being shown to the audience. On YouTube, they only allow you to upload videos, and so for a voice recording you would have to make a small video to take up the time that the interview goes on for. This would be good to show some of the pictures that were being spoken about in The Daily Mail so people can see them and decide if they are really that bad, whilst listening to what someone else from the public has to say about it. They can also then comment on the video and express their views which would be good for someone who is doing this as part of their assignment as they would have more views to write about.
Interview Planning - I needed to first ask for the permission of the person that I was going to interview. Once I had got this I needed to think of some appropriate questions to ask her, relating to the subject. I really wanted to ask her questions which allowed her to open up and tell me exactly what she thought and so I decided to introduce her to the interview and to get involved with the questions that she was asking and nodding at her answers, so that she wasn't so uptight the whole way through the interview and could relax a bit.
The next thing that I needed to consider was where I was going to record her, because as it was during college time that I did it, people were constantly walking around and making noise. So I decided to ask if I could book out the radio booth and record inside of that. The walls are soundproof and it gives a nice crisp sound to the audio once it has been recorded.
I decided to record on my Iphone because it offered me the recording device I needed and it was easy to email to myself once it had been saved so that I could then import this to YouTube and paste the link onto my blog.
The date and time for the interview was discussed with Lauren, the girl that was being interviewed, and we decided that we would meet on the 16th, which was a Monday, as we both finished college at 1pm and so we could both walk down to the radio booth together. When we started our first recording and listened back to it, we realised that where I had been holding the phone close to me the whole time, you couldn't hear Lauren very well. So we decided to record it again and pass the phone between one another this time and speck clearly into the mouthpiece. When we listened back to it, it sounded much better and we were able to edit the end bit where it had some background noise from me.
I required Lauren to be honest and truthful in her views on the issue that was raised and to speak clearly and slowly, all of these things I briefed her on before I started recording.
Structuring - As I briefed Lauren on the questions, I realised that her answers were a considerable length and so I decided to only ask her around 6 main questions because I didn't want the interview to go on for ages and to bore the listener, I wanted them to be intrigued and interested in what Lauren had to say and to learn something from what was being spoken about.
There was no introduction, it started off by me just asking the questions straight out. She was then given time to answer and then I asked the next question. When the interview had finished I thanked her for her time. I had an overall question which was 'So overall, do you think that the issue was dropped because of the respect that the actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have?' This was the ending question because it explains that the issue was dropped and I wanted to know if she thought this was the reason and if not, why?
Preperation - As I said above, I first asked Lauren if she would mind answering a few questions. I explained to her the issue that I was exploring and the questions that I would be asking, to see if she had any questions or issues about answering these. Also, once we were in the radio booth, I briefed the questions to her so that she wasn't taken by surprise when I started recording and that she had a good idea what she was going to say as her answer.
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