Week 5 Lectorial

This week’s lectorial featured a guest lecture by Louise Turley (ABC TV – producer of Back Roads) on the art of interviewing (also referred to by Louise as the art of the ‘noddy’). Of course, as soon as she mentioned this, I immediately pictured myself so clearly sitting in an interview situation making “mmm” and “ahh” sounds. Mental note was made then and there to remind myself to not do that.

Louise began to cover ‘The WHO’ of interviewing, including things like: if they have something to say? Are they credible? Can they deliver on camera and are they good ‘talent? etc, and once again, I began to imagine myself conducting the worst possible interview with a subject that would make the least possible appropriate interviewee. For example, Ellen interviewing Kanye West in this edited parody video that makes one question how some people spend their free time.

However, the overall intention of the lecture was incredible helpful and necessary, in my opinion. From this I believe I have much better idea of what kind of questions I would like to pose and how to do so in a way that will hopefully produce an interesting, open-ended and thought provoking answer, and therefore successful interview.