semester 2 blog 1

I can explain a successful interesting interview in three words: Creative, accurate, and organized. An interview should not just seem like a fan asking a whole bunch of questions. A good interview should seem almost like a short story that comes to life through very good questions with informative answers.

Creative. To me, no interview should be boring or seem useless. All questions should be questions that the reader would actually want to know, and that the interviewee could actually put effort towards answering. When the interview gets to the final product after the editing process, it should seem like the reader is actually sitting with the interviewee while they are reading the interview. In the end, through the writing, and the set-up of the interview, the reader should get a really good sense of who the interviewee is, where they come from, and what type of person they are, and maybe even the process they went through to get to where they are now.

Accurate. All questions and answers in the interview should all be true, and should represent you as an interviewer and them as an interviewee. It will never be good to do an interview with writing that does not match up to the kind of person the interviewee is, and the type of things that they would say. So if i circulate my interview and my writing around accurate information, then everything else will start to fall into place.

Organized. If an interview is all over the place, all the writing is jumbled, and it seems like the reader would get confused reading the interview, then its clearly obvious that the interview and the writing is not organized. I know that in order for my interview to be a success, I'm going to have to make sure that all the writing flows, and the questions are put in an order that makes sense, and flows in a way that helps the reader to understand me as a writer and my interviewee as a person.

Remembering all the information above will definitely lead to a fabulous interview!

Below are a link to two interviews that I thought were very good examples of successful, well written interviews. One is an interview done by Access Hollywood on Michael Jackson, while the other is done by ivillage on Beyonce:


http://www.ivillage.co.uk/newspol/celeb/cint/articles/0,,156471_690355,00.html

http://blogs.accesshollywood.com/archives/2009/06/my-final-interview-with-michae.html