A guest lecturer came in to our lectorial this week to explain their experiences in interviewing. Louise Turley, an experienced worker in the Media industry and current producer of Back Roads on ABC TV, provided many, many helpful tips on interviewing for our upcoming project: a video portrait. One of these tips I found particularly important was reflection.
Even though I’ve had experiences in interviewing in the past due to school assignments (high school and university), it was very helpful to have tips and tricks explained in-depth by someone who does this for a living. One of the things that Turley mentioned which stood out was the task of self-reflection that she suggested in doing after conducting an interview. Turley explained that it is helpful to stay on task by gathering your thoughts and ideas to as why you’ve done this interview and what impact you intend to make with your interview.
Reflection on your interview helps to understand how you wish your interview to turn out like, what the interview means, and what effect the interview can potentially have. This also gives you the opportunity to form a structure and idea of how to make this interview most effective.
This advice on self-reflection very relevant and insightful to me, especially when wanting to create quality content in a realm filled with useless pieces of information. The self-reflective technique is very useful for media practitioners to use when creating valuable and quality content in the future, and will help me to create an engaging interview with my friend and (t)rap artist, Reiis, for project brief 3.
