My interview experience was a bit hectic to start off with. Firstly, it was hard for Chantelle to come up with a topic for the interview. We finally came up with a topic and we had arranged that my sister (Gemma) and I would interview her about moving from a mixed sex school to an all girl’s school. Everything was fine, we had written our questions and we planned to do the interviews the following day. That is what we thought it would turn out to be but that was not the case. Gemma received an email from Chantelle saying that she was on Jury Duty and couldn’t make it into class at all this week. So my sister and I ended up interviewing each other. This made me angry because we had spent time writing up questions and had everything planned beforehand, then we had to start all over again.
I decided to interview Gemma on her road trip down to Rotorua. Interviewing Gemma was quite difficult because she only gave one sentence answers most of the time. I had to keep asking more questions to get information out of her. I was a bit worried that I wasn’t going to get enough information to write a story. She was quite reserved and did not want to give too much.
I liked the fact that she put some humor into her answers and made me laugh a little. I felt it reduced the pressure on me to get everything perfect. It was quite hard writing everything down as she was saying it because I wasn’t really processing what she was saying. I was more focused on writing down the answers. This could have been improved by recording the interview instead of writing down the answers. If I did that, I would have been able to go back and hear more of what she said.
For my first interview, I felt it went quite well because I did manage to write everything down and I managed to get information from her. In future, I am going to think more about my questions beforehand because I had to rush this one to get the interview done in time. I realized I missed a few important questions out when Francesca spoke to me. Overall, I enjoyed the experience of conducting an interview, even though there were a few hiccups along the way.
Amanda Provan
I decided to interview Gemma on her road trip down to Rotorua. Interviewing Gemma was quite difficult because she only gave one sentence answers most of the time. I had to keep asking more questions to get information out of her. I was a bit worried that I wasn’t going to get enough information to write a story. She was quite reserved and did not want to give too much.
I liked the fact that she put some humor into her answers and made me laugh a little. I felt it reduced the pressure on me to get everything perfect. It was quite hard writing everything down as she was saying it because I wasn’t really processing what she was saying. I was more focused on writing down the answers. This could have been improved by recording the interview instead of writing down the answers. If I did that, I would have been able to go back and hear more of what she said.
For my first interview, I felt it went quite well because I did manage to write everything down and I managed to get information from her. In future, I am going to think more about my questions beforehand because I had to rush this one to get the interview done in time. I realized I missed a few important questions out when Francesca spoke to me. Overall, I enjoyed the experience of conducting an interview, even though there were a few hiccups along the way.
Amanda Provan
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Well it wasn’t a real interview, it was only for an assignment but it felt a little bit real.
When our lecturer Francesca told us we had to do an interview for our first assignment I was looking forward to it. We had to get into pairs but since there was odd numbers, me and Amanda paired up with Chantelle into a three. The plan was for Chantelle to interview me and Amanda together as sisters about our move to NZ. And then me and Amanda would interview Chantelle about attending an all-girls school. Since Chantelle couldn’t decide on what she wanted me and Amanda to interview her on until about 10minutes before the class was finished, we decided to leave the interviews until we had a break on Monday.
Monday came and Chantelle couldn’t make it to class because she had got called for jury duty. So me and Amanda had to just interview each other, which was fine. We had no idea what to interview each other about, but Amanda thought she would like to know about my road trip to Rotorua I had last year with my friends. So Amanda did her interview with me.
It was an interesting experience to be interviewed and I thought Amanda had lots of good questions. The only thing was that because she is my sister it was a little hard to give her answers because she pretty much knew all about my trip already but she managed to get a lot of information out of me. And then it was my turn to interview I still didn’t have a topic so Francesca helped us out a bit and I wrote down some questions for Amanda about her love of heavy metal music. I asked her questions about how she feels when she listens to heavy metal music and how she fits in when she goes to the concerts.
Overall I did enjoy the interviewing experience but I don’t think I would be able to handle doing a real interview, so it was lucky that it was only for an assignment. If I had to do it for real then I would definitely be a lot more prepared than I was for our pretend interviews. And it was lucky my sister is in my class because everyone else was already paired up. Now to write the article…
When our lecturer Francesca told us we had to do an interview for our first assignment I was looking forward to it. We had to get into pairs but since there was odd numbers, me and Amanda paired up with Chantelle into a three. The plan was for Chantelle to interview me and Amanda together as sisters about our move to NZ. And then me and Amanda would interview Chantelle about attending an all-girls school. Since Chantelle couldn’t decide on what she wanted me and Amanda to interview her on until about 10minutes before the class was finished, we decided to leave the interviews until we had a break on Monday.
Monday came and Chantelle couldn’t make it to class because she had got called for jury duty. So me and Amanda had to just interview each other, which was fine. We had no idea what to interview each other about, but Amanda thought she would like to know about my road trip to Rotorua I had last year with my friends. So Amanda did her interview with me.
It was an interesting experience to be interviewed and I thought Amanda had lots of good questions. The only thing was that because she is my sister it was a little hard to give her answers because she pretty much knew all about my trip already but she managed to get a lot of information out of me. And then it was my turn to interview I still didn’t have a topic so Francesca helped us out a bit and I wrote down some questions for Amanda about her love of heavy metal music. I asked her questions about how she feels when she listens to heavy metal music and how she fits in when she goes to the concerts.
Overall I did enjoy the interviewing experience but I don’t think I would be able to handle doing a real interview, so it was lucky that it was only for an assignment. If I had to do it for real then I would definitely be a lot more prepared than I was for our pretend interviews. And it was lucky my sister is in my class because everyone else was already paired up. Now to write the article…
The thought of being interviewed by a complete stranger terrified me. I was sitting in class hoping that someone familiar would say, “Candice, would you be my partner?”
We were instructed by our lecturer, Francesca, “To get into groups of two” and to interview each other on a topic. It could be an experience we had encountered during the holidays or an activity we had participated in. One clear instruction was, that it had to be a “real experience,” we could not just make up any old story.
When Chloe shouted out, “Candice, I’m with you!” I was truly relieved! I thought, “I can do this, no problem.” When Chloe began asking me questions about my holiday in South Africa, I answered them easily. Chloe began the interview with questions that only required facts, I was quite happy answering them, until questions that required reasons popped up, like “Why did you go to South Africa?” As we were in the classroom, others could hear what I was saying and I felt very uncomfortable knowing this, it made me feel uneasy as it then became a discussion between the other students.
Though I was very comfortable talking to Chloe and I know Chloe as a friend, I suddenly put up a wall and thought, “Hang on, who is going to see these answers, where is all my personal information going to be written?” It was then that I realised, if Chloe was a journalist questioning me, I think I would not actually enjoy sharing these personal experiences. I would be comfortable with facts though, questions like, “When did you leave for South Africa?” weren’t exactly hard to answer.
Being the interviewer, was a lovely job for me. “Boy, did I enjoy it!” Being curious by nature, questions came naturally. I was also very interested in Chloe’s topic, “A cruise to the Islands”. This was my chance to question someone who had been on a seventeen day cruise, as I had never had the opportunity to go on one. In the past, I could only imagine what a cruise might be like and I always wanted to know just how much it differed from the television series, “The Love Boat”.
So overall, the interviewing experience wasn’t too daunting. However, I do think that if I had an interviewee that was quite abrupt, I would
have to prepare a long list of questions beforehand, as well as think of some questions right then and there. I would definitely need to learn how to dig deeper, in order to get an interesting story out of a mundane person. I could only imagine that if I had to interview several people about something that I was passionate about, I would truly find interviewing to be a pleasurable task.
We were instructed by our lecturer, Francesca, “To get into groups of two” and to interview each other on a topic. It could be an experience we had encountered during the holidays or an activity we had participated in. One clear instruction was, that it had to be a “real experience,” we could not just make up any old story.
When Chloe shouted out, “Candice, I’m with you!” I was truly relieved! I thought, “I can do this, no problem.” When Chloe began asking me questions about my holiday in South Africa, I answered them easily. Chloe began the interview with questions that only required facts, I was quite happy answering them, until questions that required reasons popped up, like “Why did you go to South Africa?” As we were in the classroom, others could hear what I was saying and I felt very uncomfortable knowing this, it made me feel uneasy as it then became a discussion between the other students.
Though I was very comfortable talking to Chloe and I know Chloe as a friend, I suddenly put up a wall and thought, “Hang on, who is going to see these answers, where is all my personal information going to be written?” It was then that I realised, if Chloe was a journalist questioning me, I think I would not actually enjoy sharing these personal experiences. I would be comfortable with facts though, questions like, “When did you leave for South Africa?” weren’t exactly hard to answer.
Being the interviewer, was a lovely job for me. “Boy, did I enjoy it!” Being curious by nature, questions came naturally. I was also very interested in Chloe’s topic, “A cruise to the Islands”. This was my chance to question someone who had been on a seventeen day cruise, as I had never had the opportunity to go on one. In the past, I could only imagine what a cruise might be like and I always wanted to know just how much it differed from the television series, “The Love Boat”.
So overall, the interviewing experience wasn’t too daunting. However, I do think that if I had an interviewee that was quite abrupt, I would
have to prepare a long list of questions beforehand, as well as think of some questions right then and there. I would definitely need to learn how to dig deeper, in order to get an interesting story out of a mundane person. I could only imagine that if I had to interview several people about something that I was passionate about, I would truly find interviewing to be a pleasurable task.
I have found over the many times I have interviewed people, the challenge is that you need to make your questions open and leading; you don’t want one word answers.
When being interviewed, depending on the topic, I felt quite confident and relaxed. I love to talk so it is natural to me and I can do so freely. Candice interviewed me about my cruise around the Pacific, which I felt confident about and could talk a lot about because it was just telling of my experience. She asked questions like what was the atmosphere like on the boat? What islands did you visit? And what was the food like? She asked me good open ended questions that required me to say more than one word.
I also don’t mind that much interviewing others I just find it a challenge thinking of the right questions to ask in order to receive the answer you’re looking for. When interviewing people I find it hard to think of the right questions before hand and to think of a number of questions. I found it easier when I interviewed Candice to think of questions as I went, from hearing her answers to some questions I had asked prompted me to think of another question leading on from that to ask her.
When being interviewed, depending on the topic, I felt quite confident and relaxed. I love to talk so it is natural to me and I can do so freely. Candice interviewed me about my cruise around the Pacific, which I felt confident about and could talk a lot about because it was just telling of my experience. She asked questions like what was the atmosphere like on the boat? What islands did you visit? And what was the food like? She asked me good open ended questions that required me to say more than one word.
I also don’t mind that much interviewing others I just find it a challenge thinking of the right questions to ask in order to receive the answer you’re looking for. When interviewing people I find it hard to think of the right questions before hand and to think of a number of questions. I found it easier when I interviewed Candice to think of questions as I went, from hearing her answers to some questions I had asked prompted me to think of another question leading on from that to ask her.
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