Interview Techniques

Interview Techniques

Hard news interview

Hard news interviews are the kind of interviews that are based around very heavy and usually negative topics, as a result of this the interviewer has to be professional and ask questions in a sensitive manner.

Informational interview

An informational interview is between you and a professional to get the best information. It helps get specific information from their job or trade.

Adversarial interview

Where the interviewee is speaking on behalf of the public to get their point across to a bigger audience.

Interpretative interview

A reaction story

It is a response either for or against what has happened.

Explanatory story ­

This story provides details of a news story. So the interview that is conducted to get the details of an event, accident or incident is called interpretative interview

Personal interview

 A personal interview is with someone that is in the public eye at the minute trying to find out more about the personal life of the interviewee.

Actuality

It is a kind of interview in which the reporter's voice is not included in the final production and only the Interviewee’s voice is made to be heard by the listeners. This kind of interview is made a part of documentary or feature.

Emotional interview

This interview is normally conducted with a sad or happy story to get an emotional response from the audience and really lets us know how the interviewee felt.

Entertainment interview

The only purpose is to entertain the viewer. So may include jokes and puns to make it more entertaining for the listeners

Telephone or remote interview

An interview held between a phone call and is recorded or is done live.

Vox-Pop

A Vox-Pop is short for Vox-Populi which is Latin for 'voice of the people' and in interview terms it is when you interview a person of the public

Grabbed interview

It means to interview a person who does not intend to give an interview but the reporter is determined to take. Normally it is a very short interview and sometimes the potential interviewee comes up with "no comments". In this case though the interviewee refuses to say anything about the issue but his saying "no comments" suggests the listeners to get the meaning.


This research was collected in order to help me write the script for the preliminary task, as it shows conventions of interviews and what kind of interviews there are, this would help me select what kind of interview I would be using in my preliminary task, and my final task.