Distinct features
· Confessional first person
· Feature Interviews
· Profiles
· General Features
· Simplicity- nice clean format (feature interview)
History of Interviews
· 1884 Pall Mall Gazette Editor WD stead (first interview
· 1890 US Pulitzer/ Hearst
· 1960 US New Journalism (literacy) reportage- Hunter S Thompson i/v Nixon, Tom Woolf, Norman Mailer- extravagant
· Andy Warhol ‘Interview’ magazine 1969 dedicated to the cult of celebrity.
Interview Types
1. Celebrity
2. Briefing
3. One to one
4. Q & A
21st Century
· Interview ‘dying’.
· Stars websites.
· Q & A format, no freedom to write work in an interesting way.
· Copy/ Pic approval
Tips for a successful interview
· Don’t be late
· Look Professional
· Choose a quiet venue for the interview but also somewhere that has an atmosphere
· Expect the worst; don’t assume every interviewee will give a great interview. Have a few confrontational questions on standby if your interviewee isn’t being responsive.
· Never say no
· Always prepare your questions
· Do your homework, research your interviewee
Classic Questions
· How do you know?
· What makes you say that?
· Can you give me an example?
· Tell me a story about your childhood
· Judges of the British Press Awards look for an imaginative choice of interviews as well as an ability to extract revelations from frequently interviewed subjects. They also search for a writer with a distinctive style in a highly competitive field.
Profile Writing is an obituary for a living person, not technically an interview. Man/ woman in the news. Anonymous, no direct speech.
Method:
· Sketch out life map
· Word length consistent in length
· Indentify people to i/v
· Friends and foe
· Editor’s view
· Straight chronological summary
· Balance is essential
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