Interviews

Types of interview:

• Conversational interview
• Standardised, open ended interview
• Closed, fixed response interview (not recommended)

Different ways of finding out audience research


Filming/Audio recording interviews of you and different people
- When watching the first 5 minutes of a film, what things draw you in to carry on watching?
- What genre of film do you prefer? Horror, Comedy, Romance etc...
- Would you rather see a man or a woman as the dominant main character in a film? Why is that?
- Do you enjoy films that are standard story-lines or would you prefer to watch something totally different and uniques.


Audio/Filming of people watching different openings and saying what they enjoyed etc.
- What did you think about the mise en scene of that opening?
Lighting/Colours
Positioning of characters in the scene
Props/Settings
Costumes
Facial Expressions/Body language
- Are you drawn in and want to watch more of the film?
- Do you think the opening could've been better in any way? If so how?
- Did you like the camera angles that were used throughout the opening? Were they inventive and did that make the opening more interesting?
- Do you think that the opening is effective? What in particular would you say makes it effective?
- Do you like that you can tell alot about what will happen in the rest of the film or would you rather be left in suspense and not know what is going to happen?
- Can you pick out one part of the opening in particular that you enjoyed most?
- If you could improve something about the opening what would it be?


Surveys


Questionnaires


Facebook posts asking people / polls on some openings that they find effective and enjoy


Emailing companies to ask about their views e.g. IPC media and other film companies


Plan for research
Friday 15th January - thinking about different techniques of gathering information
16th, 17th, 18th January - writing out questions i want to ask people and planning who i want to interview and setting up a Facebook poll
22nd, 23rd, 24th January - audio recording my interviews with people about their opinions, filming me and family/friends discussing different opening scenes of films
25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th - sorting out all the information (editing it) and getting it onto my blog




As an interviewer i think that i was ok at having a conversational interview whereas at the beginning it was quite hard to get ask a good question and get it going, e.g. the question was too broad and i needed to think about something not so hard to answer for the interviewee, so instead of asking one big question need to divide it up into little parts and get the answers that way. I would definitely need more practice at giving interviews if was to do it again and maybe a bit of planning may have been a bit better, without it it just seemed to end up in a conversation.