This week, we discussed how to conduct an interview for our group’s final documentary. Rohan explained the best ways to make sure we could obtain answers that we want to fulfill the story we are looking for from our perspective characters, in this case, my group’s female willy Wonka: Terri.

In class, it was mentioned that there should be maximum of 10 questions to cover up a documentary. This is because to limit as much question as possible is important so then there will be more space for the participant to answer much more in paragraphs. Additionally, there should be the ‘top of the mountain’ sort of question, where it initially, describes the story of the documentary. This question is usually the 8th question – it is basically where we as the interviewee could see the participant’s emotion whether it might be their true passion or joy, etc. Moreover, it is also important for the interviewer to have a good relationship with the participant, a relationship in which, the participant is comfortable opening up and telling their story, the story, we intend to tell through putting together a documentary. As a result, the person controlling the story behind a documentary film would always be the person behind the camera, simply, the person interviewing a particular participant. This is because the interviewer is going to control the idea or focus of that story by the questions they ask, while the ‘interviewee’ would provide his or her own personal opinion or comments.