Project 2

Task 2 Exploring
Interview
Techniques
INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES & PURPOSES
Task Tone: formal/informal
What interviews have you selected for
this task? serious/light hearted
How have you identified your examples
as either entertainment, hard news or
investigative in their styling?

What is the overall tone of these

examples? What makes you think this?

How well do you think the interview

fulfils the intended purpose?
Deadline: Wednesday 4th November
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Exploring Interview
Task Techniques & Purposes
Choose 3 different styles of interviews which have
the interviewer in vision (on camera with the
interviewee)
1. Write a short summary of what
- hard news: a BBC or ITV news or Good Morning
the interview is about
Britain interview
2. Take a screenshot of an extract
- entertainment: celebrity interview
from the interview
- investigative: a BBC News Night Interview or Louis
3. Identify the purpose
Theroux interview clip from one of his documentaries
4. List the communication skills that
These notes will form are used throughout
the foundation of your 5. List the types of question that are
used throughout
analysis for Task 2
 How do I need to present Task 2?

01
Your investigation into
interview techniques and
purposes should be in the form
of a written analysis -
structured sentences and
paragraphs
02
It should be uploaded to your
Project 2 page under the
heading 'Exploring Interview
Techniques and Purposes'
03
Remember to make the
changes to your entertainment
interview analysis which I fed
back to you via Teams chat

Submission:
Take a screenshot of your completed analysis and submit it via the Teams assignment hand in link
 Types of Question
open: Any interview question starting with
who, what, where, when, how and why (and
not forgetting ‘tell me about’)

closed: can be answered with either a

single word or a short phrase

multiple: asking a series of questions

direct: straight to the point and blunt

leading: these prompt interviewees to

make judgements about their
actions/opinions
 Styles of
Interviews

hard news
combative
entertainment
investigative
promotional
Interview Structures
introduction - how does the interview begin?

developmental questions - questions that dig deeper into the topic being discussed

confidence building - techniques used to build confidence in the interviewee

key questions - the most important questions of the interview - the point behind

conducting the interview in the first place

summary/concluding statements - how does the interview end?

 Communication
Skills
building rapport e.g. compliments,
showing them that you have conducted
thorough research
active listening e.g. eye contact, nodding
body language
responding to their answers
facial expressions
Purposes of Interviews

to enhance the audience's understanding of a

topic, event, person
to provide information
interpretive, eg expressing or explaining opinion
accountability - to hold an individual to account
emotional, eg allowing audience emotional
insight to a situation