My own interview research..

My three interview ideas

1^st interview – Foreign student- I will be asking them questions about their thoughts about education in general in the UK and what difficulties they have faced whilst being in education in the UK and how they overcame it.

2^nd interview – Administration assistant at a college. I’ll be asking questions about their job roles as well as what it’s like to work in an admissions office, what they do and what challenges they face daily and where they see themselves in the future.

3^rd interview – I will be interviewing a sales associate at a shop and I will be asking them general questions about their job in terms of what they do and what challenges they face.

For one of my interviews I am going to be interviewing a foreign student who studies at South City College Birmingham and I am going to ask them questions about how they feel about studying in the UK. I am also going to ask them questions like the differences between the education here and there an what they think in general about education, I am also going to ask questions like what they study.

I will open the interview by introducing myself saying “Hello, my name is Sarita and I am a student at South City College Birmingham myself and today I will be interviewing an oversees student from my college and I will be asking them just general questions about education in general and their views on it, this is for me to just see what they think of the United Kingdom’s education system. 

1^st Interview: Foreign Student

Questions:

1.    So tell us about yourself, about where you from?

2.    When did you come to the UK and how long have you been here?

3.    What made you come to the UK for education?

4.    What difficulties have you found yourself in while trying to get into education?

5.    What course are you on and do you enjoy what you do?

6.    Do you feel you get treated fairly as a student?

7.    What one thing would you say that you like about the education system in the UK? 

For example the costs of courses etc

Purpose of my research:

Before doing my interview what I did was have a look at the facts about the topic of education, and the topic was about how the difficulties most students who are international face, so I realised that the main  issues they face are about getting loans so therefore in my interview I asked questions about the loan and costs. This information was found from sources on a site which surrounded the topic of foreign students educating in the UK

The methods of research: I used sources mainly from internet but I even had a look at articles on magazines as well as heard radio interviews too for example Karl Lagerfeld who is a clothes designer did a interview on a fashion magazine that I recently read and it was basically 12 questions and underneath them an answer followed straight away which was written exactly the way he said it such as the laughs and smiles he even gave when he said certain words and phrases.

The radio interview I heard was of a interview on  a radio show called BBC Asian Network and  it was a presenter called Bobby who interviewed a singer who has a new song out to buy on iTunes so that was  promotional  interview which is known as an informational interview.

The purpose of this interview: Foreign student interview: I did this interview to get an insight as well as the thoughts and feelings of foreign students in the UK doing education and what difficulties they face whilst being a student in the UK and how they cope with the course they do.

Interview planning: Location: this interview I did was at college itself and it was in the radio room, I did this there as the area was quiet so it was much more convenient to do that as there would be no interruptions as well as unnecessary background noise.

Date/time: Tuesday 11:00pm 2015 on the 9^th of June: The interview which I have done I think that it could be played for a local television as it’s just a basic insight on views of foreign students about what they think of the UK education system. It could possibly be even on the local news on a little feature about education.

Second interview: Administration interview

I will be interviewing and administration assistant who works at college and will be asking her about her job role and what she does in general in terms of what the duties involve as well as how she helps out students.

Questions:

1)    Could you please tell me a little bit about your job role, in terms of what it actually involves?

2)    What general information did you provide to your students, like what sort?

3)    How long have you been in your role?

4)    What are your typical working hours?

5)    One thing you mostly enjoy about your job?

6)    What have you found most challenging about your job?

7)    What are your colleagues like that you work with? Is your relationship good with them would you say?

8)    What would be the best advice you could give me as a student to who’s interested in the field of admin?

9)    Where do you see yourself in 2 years? Do you see yourself still in the admin field or something else?

10) What’s got you interested in administration?

11) What previous qualifications do you hold that have got you into this job you have now?

Purpose of research: 

the research is to get as much information about the subject of administration so I know what sort of questions I can ask the person I am interviewing. I also needed to make sure that the questions were quite quick and straight to the point as she kindly gave me time to answer her questions in her spare time.

Before I did this interview I got just general information about what I could ask a administration assistant and I got this information from a student who studies business and administration so this was a good thing for me to have done I gave me a heads up in terms of knowing what sort of questions I can ask as well as what main things I should cover in the interview so it would be easier for the interviewee to answer questions. I did this because research because I found this really quite helpful as it gave me a good idea on questions for the interview.

The purpose:  The purpose of this interview with a college administration interview  was to simply just get to know what it’s like to have a job in administration and what it’s like to carry out the duties, this interview I did was an informational one and it informed us about the administration role and what the job involves, so if someone is interested in this field of work I think they will get a decent grasp and a slight insight of what skills they need to have as well as what they need to do to become an administration assistant. So overall I feel as though this interview is a informational as well as quite informative.

This interview about administration would be ideal for either a educational television programme or radio programme as it’s about telling the listening audience what it is like to be in a certain job field.

Date/time/Location: the date I took this interview was on Monday 15^th June it was roughly around 12:00 afternoon time and the interview took place at the admissions office in the college itself and they kindly gave me 10 minutes in the office to do the interview.

 Third interview: Retail assistant interview

Questions

1)    So you’re a sales assistant, so can you tell me a bit about your job role, in terms of what it actually involves as well as where you work?

2)    What general information do you need to know about working in this environment?

3)    How long have you been a sales assistant?

4)    What are your typical working hours?

5)    One thing you mostly enjoy about your job?

6)    What have you found most challenging about your position as a sales assistant?

7)    What are your workers like that you work with? Is your relationship good with them would you say?

8)    What would be the best advice you could give someone who’s interested in the field of being a sales associate/ assistant?

9)    Where do you see yourself in 2 years? Do you see yourself still in the field of sales or something else?

10) What’s got you interested in sales?

11) Give me three key skills do you need to be a sales associate?

12) What previous qualifications do you hold that have got you into this job you have now?

Purpose: the purpose of my research was basically just to get an insight as well as a good understanding and feel of what it is like to be an associate at a shop in a health and beauty sector and as well as what they actually do behind the counter and what complications they face as well as what they enjoy doing and what skills they think they need as individuals to get a job in this field.

Before I did this interview I made sure I got a good set of questions to ask the sales associate and I had to make sure my questions were quite good so what I did was watch a few videos online about working in retail and I mainly looked at a lot of college promotion videos about retail just to see what they do and I also analysed a few people in the stores just generally to see what they do and I think that this was a really good idea for me to have beforehand because it gave me a good understanding of what retail assistants do so I then began to come up with questions myself in my mind  to ask the assistant, the background research has helped me a lot to think of questions of what I should ask and that what I feel made my interview flow and I liked that because I was more confident doing this interview, whilst doing this interview I had to be quite quick with my questions as well as manage my time quite effectively as she generously took time out of her busy schedule to actually do this interview with me on her break so i didn’t really want to take up to much of her time.

Methods of research: I got my information in terms resources from the internet as I researched generally what to ask a retail assistant, I didn’t want it for them to feel like a interview for them so I made sure I asked questions in terms about what they do rather what they need to do so I thought it would be better as its more of a way which will get me to know more about there role as an retail assistant.

The Importance Interview Research

The importance of research before an interview: 

as an interviewee it’s really important to know all the context of the person and the subject of the interview, this is because this will help the interview flow a lot better meaning that when you ask questions to the interviewer they’ll know what to say.

The questions are the key point in an interview and it’s important for them to be quite short and quite straight forward as well as easy to understand as that will make it a lot easier for the interviewee to answer the questions.

The list of journalistic contexts: print, television, radio, online, news, sport, editorial and feature write ups.

Definitions of the journalistic contexts:

News - Interviews which are on the news are mainly investigative and the usual topics of the interviews are generally with: police, eye witnesses, members of the public, politicians and sometimes people in the area from where a new story is based. The news interviews to inform us about other opinions and facts. They are presented formally.

Sport - Football matches and tournaments etc all have interviews before the beginning of them and this is to show how people feel before the event and what their predictions may be about the game this gives us audience some general background information to help us understand what they feel and we then get a good grasp of the atmosphere. The presenters before matches sometimes predict what they think the outcome will be like of the events to allow the audience to gain an insight to their opinions. After the events usually interviews with the winning team will take place so the audience can gain an understanding to their feelings at that patellar moment.

Radio - Radio interviews have a lot of wide range topics there are entertainment interviews on radio shows such as the radio channel radio 1 and then there are documentary radio interviews on Radio 4 for an example. Some interviews for the radio are done in the radio studio itself and that can be over the phone or online. It is very important to introduce the interviewee on the radio very clearly as no one can see who the interviewee is before the interview.

Online - The internet has a lot of different websites where you can find interviews. Print pieces of interviews can be found online as magazines and newspapers now have their own websites where these interviews can be read on there. Television programmes also have their own online websites where you can find interviews that have been placed online for catch up e.g. on BBC iPlayer which lots of people use. There are also a lot of websites where interviews can be posted on to the internet like through YouTube channels and sometimes people even put interviews up through their personal blog sites.

Print - In magazines and newspapers you can find print interviews, these interviews are the same style as other interviews but the difference is that it is wrote into the newspaper/magazine. A print interview will have the questions written down and the answer to the question will be right after it. The print interviews have different themes and can include reports, hard news, straight forward and editorial. Most print pieces pieces of the interview will be around the page in catchy bold font and in bold colours this is because it will grab the readers.

Television - There are lots of interviews that are shown on television. Hard news and investigative interview techniques are used for political interviews which are mainly shown on the news. Entertainment interviews are shown on the Graham Norton Show or on Alan Carr's chatty man, however some interviews are not as hard hitting or as amusing because you can get personal emotional interviews on T.V too that are emotional for the interviewee's and as well as the audience for example the programme Piers Morgan's life stories focuses on issues which can be quite personal.

Informational Interview Analysis

The Front Row with Anupama Chopra

Interview with an actress named Rani Mukherjee who talks about her new movie and why we should watch it.

This interview is of an actress who is promoting her new film and he tells us a bit about what it’s about and why we should watch it. This type of interview is known as an informational one as she is informing us about the film.

This interview took pace on a TV show called The Front Row and it airs on a channel called Star World and it’s a well known channel in India and a lot of actors and actresses come on her show to promote and talk about there new film releases as well as their life.

The interview in general is very relaxed and fun and I think it’s great because it shows the level of comfortableness between the two. I feel that the interviewer asks great questions as her body language makes the questions easier to understand.

The interviewer asks questions like “what made you take on this movie?” and I think this is a good question because of the fact that this question can go in any way and that’s great because the actress can say so much and that actually helps the interviewer as well because it makes her have even more questions in her head because of the outcomes. The interview is very light hearted and it’s quite informational as well because it gives you an insight on the movie and what it’s all about.

The interviewer and the interviewee have a very nice connection and therefore I feel that this is great because the actor then feels comfortable and that’s great from the audience, as we’ll hear more about the actor herself.

The questions asked generally on this interview are open as they can lead to any sort of answer depending on how the question is asked.

Even though the interview is an informative one and the questions are quite open I would also say the interview is definitely quite light hearted as the actress and the interviewer share some jokey moments which are nice to see as that shows the level of comfortableness with the two.

The interview as a whole is a light-hearted promotional interview as the actress has specially come onto this well-known show to promote her film so audience watch it.

Emotional Interview Analysis

Successful Bollywood actress Deepika, talks about the battle she went through to beat depression

This interview is an interview of a Bollywood actress who is telling us about her earlier years of when she was suffering from anxiety and depression.

This interview goes into her life as she tells us how she coped, how she felt and what she did about it.

This interview as a whole is a very emotional one especially for the audience who have been through this situation or who know of people going through depression. In this interview we have the actress herself, as well as her mother with her and the counselor who helped her and the doctor she went to see whilst she was in her depression phase.

The questions which the presenter asked the actress are very direct questions as they go really deep into her life and from the questions asked we really learn about the way she felt in that time.

The interview type is a very hard news structure as it’s a serious interview so therefore it had been handled well with the way the interviewer was asking questions as the tone she used was quite sympathetic and understanding but it was right because it didn’t seem at all patronising and I think this is really important because this then makes the actress feel comfortable talking to the interviewer as they don’t feel intimidated.

Quote from the interview: “I Felt Empty and Directionless'

The first question to start of the interview was asked by the interviewer was “why do you think it’s important to talk about depression” I think this is a great question as it will tell us as an audience why she thinks it’s important to speak about it and why she has spoken about it.  I think as well it’s a great question because of the fact that the actress can answer this in any way, which will then help the interviewer ask more questions from the responses she gets.

Another question at the beginning of the interview which was asked was and I thought was good was “when did the feeling start and what did you exactly feel?” this again is a good question because the actress will give us a long answer explaining this and it will tell us from the beginning properly what she feels and when it started so it’ll be structured well and quite easy to follow through and then from the answers the actress will give to the interviewer, the interviewer will be able to ask even more questions from the responses she gets from the actress. 

The interview set out: 

The way the interview was set out is relaxed, this was definitely good to do as it’s very important to make the actress feel comfortable and then from this she’ll be able to speak about the issue more expressively.  

The way the interviewer (Barkhaa) is giving eye contact to the actress while she is speaking is really good because it shows she is listening. The fact that the interviewers hand is on her chin shows that she is really listening carefully to what she is saying and that she is interested in what the actress has say.

The way the interview was closed was the actress saying to the audience if you feel like this or know someone who is feeling this then please do speak up because help is what she needed and the fact she got it has helped her a lot so sometimes asking for help is all you need.

The doctor and the psychiatrist also told us the symptoms of depression and anxiety so they explained what happens as well as the feelings.

The aim of the interview:

"If I can impact one life in this entire process of speaking up and letting people know that it's something I have been through and something that I could deal with because I had a fantastic support system."

The interviewer who interviewed the actress was a very active listener and she listened very carefully and I think this was great because it shows you she is taking the interview very seriously.

This type of interview was on TV and it was on a news channel and overall it was an emotional interview as it allowed us audience to see the insight of her life and feelings.

Interpretive Interview Analysis

Charlie Sheen says, “I’m not bipolar!”

This type of interview is known as an interpretive interview and that means that the interviewee is trying to justify what has happened and they are trying to tell you there opinion on the particular situation.

The interview starts off with the interviewer talking about him and saying what people think about his behavior rather than asking a straight on question and I think in this case it’s a good idea because that makes the talk more suggestive and its good because this will lead up to Charlie answering questions that haven’t been asked so its gets more out of him as he’s being candid without really realizing it.

The interview is on an American TV show but was shown on the news.

Quote

The interviewer says:

 “Your anger seems erratic, what it this?” – This is the start off question and I think it’s a very interesting one; it works well within this interview because of the way the interviewee is acting.

“When was the last time you used?” – this is a really good question asked because of the fact that she doesn’t actually mention the words drugs so this means she’s being quite suggestive and wants him to say it instead of her saying it.

The interview style is very investigative because the interviewer is trying to figure out what is going on with him because of his very abnormal behavior.

As the interview goes along then the interviewer starts asking him questions and the questions are very upfront and direct and she seems being very demanding in terms of the way she is asking them and I think it is a good thing because of the way that he is giving his answers.

The communication skills between the two are quite good and I feel that the interviewer is being quite straight on now in terms of what she is saying.

I also feel they talk to each other quite well but on some circumstances I feel that the way they both talk comes across as a bit aggressive as the lady interviewing is very upfront and her voice is quite sharp which on some occasions seems quite condescending.

The purpose of the interview is to inform the audience about what happened in one part of Charlie’s life and whether he did or did not take drugs.