Interviews In Class

What Went Well? 

. Following up on questions, after the interviewee answered them to get there full opinion/knowledge across so the interview overall would be more open and full of things to have a full discussion about.
. Showing that both parties were relaxed and I feel the way I was asking the question and my body language showed my interviewee that it was a nice relaxing environment so the questions/answers were easily followed from both sides this is something I will be putting/using in my documentary and interviews.

What Could I Improve? 

. The angle of the interview is something that can be improved and will be improved when I do my interviews in my documentary it will either be an interview in which will be moving around because I maybe talking to people who are handling dogs at the time or if its sitting down both of us will be facing the camera/each other at a sort of angle so we can not just get the dialogue in the interview but facially expression and body language as it is just as important.

. Improving on some questions get so more together, while also getting some more facts together for the serious interviews I will be doing so I don't muck up on any information or facts when I'm trying to get a point across to get an answer or even just an opinion.

Life On Death Row - Documentary Analysis

One of the documentary's I have chosen to analysis is a BBC Three documentary called Life On Death Row in this documentary they focus on two people who are in death row leading up to there final days and also interview both them and the victims of there crimes getting both sides, this documentary is very different any I have seen before for example there are no one leading the documentary no voice over no interviewer just the odd words to say what day it is they do most of the description of the documentary through the victims and the criminals explain what had happen and also through the victims going back to the scene of the crimes and explaining what happen and also flash of pictures of the victims.  

Even thou the victims get emotional the camera does stay on them and does a weird effect of showing all the victims and then the two different criminals no words are needed as I feel it sums up the documentary as forgiveness and regret.

These are the the victims daughters 

This is the guy who killed there dad who was a off duty police officer

And this is the criminals Dad, it shows both sides on how it can effect both families

They show the victims daughters, the wife and then the person who committed the crime and then his family members all while a preacher is praying for him and his family, this documentary does a good job at not just showing one side of the argument and saying yes this man should die but showing the effects of his family and the victims family and gives the audience a winder view on the death penalty in America and how strong they are with putting people on it. The one question they is asked which I think is something that doesn't just stick with the victims but also the audience is if they agree with the person being killed, do they agree with the death penalty and the two daughters say guilt is there for someone dieing but they do want justice for there father so leads the audience to question is the death penalty right or is the death penalty right for everyone?  

The documentary itself is so different mainly because of it's grittiness and how it doesn't try to hide the facts it gets right into the true effects of murder and the death penalty in America, which i personally feel is a real issue that people face in America as a lot of people are against it while on the other hand just as many people are for it. The way it really tries to get this through to the audience is like I said showing both sides of it and not holding back on any details or images. They also focus on how both of the crinmals focus on god and how they really feel about being in here and knowing that they will die in the next couple of days, that there's no second chance that this is it while get there full opinion/feelings on it they ask the same thing to the victims and the families even thou most documentary's wouldn't either be able to ask that or just plain wouldn't as i said previous this documentary does not hold back on anything and let's you sort of feel how everyone effected from what has happen feels and really pulls at the audience heart strings. 

   

American reporter James Kirchick hijacks an interview on Russia Today Interview 3

In this interview a homosexual interviewee changes the subject completely while talking to Russia Today to aim the interview at the way homosexual people are treated in Russia and the laws that are supported behind it and his outrage and opinion on it in general and talks over the interviewee's a number of times when they try to silence him and get him back on to the subject at hand.

The interviewee starts by directing a previous question she had asked to a previous interviewee, right away the interview starts with a quote "As this person once said etc" then begins to let it be known what he is here to talk about by showing what he is wearing and speaking his opinion right off the bat of the interview. The interviewer then quickly responds by saying "Yes, we will talk about that later" but the interviewee does not stop his point and continues talking and then the interviewer tries for a second time to get back on to the subject and asks what about this? to the interviewee. Then the interviewee makes it plain and simple on what he is here to talk about and there is no other reason why he is here, he continues it by sending a message too all homosexual Russians and shows how strongly he feels about the treatment.

The interviewer doesn't really know what to say and just says "Oh I see" and then tries to move on to another interviewee about the subject at hand, but then again the interviewees emotions take over and he voices his opinion about the treatment and asking how they get to sleep at night being an interviewer who see's this all and doesn't do anything about it and just hides it, then she laughs and says he has to come over and see for yourself and laughs again while he is asking how she sleeps at night but she also stumbles on her words not knowing what to say you can see she is trying to get ride of him and doesn't what his opinion on that subject in the interview. Once again the interviewer tries to move him on again but still has a small laugh and reminds him at the subject at hand even thou what he is talking about upsets him a lot she still laughs this isn't a good example of an interviewer she has no consideration on his feelings and doesn't even try to calm him down just shows she doesn't want to talk about his opinion and doesn't care.

Then one of the other interviewers jump in and he starts to say that it's Jame's right to voice his opinion so making him feel like he is aloud to voice his opinion but then goes on by saying are you ready to move on to the panel we have set up to talk about the subject at hand, give him a choice to move on instead of letting him talk and talk is a good sign on a good interviewer unlike the lady who just shown zero intrest in what the interviewee was saying which is the wrong way to approach someone with the emotions that was backing his point. Even then the interviewee shows evidence that the subject they have been talking about is something they have been talking about for over twenty four hours and while the subject he wants to talk about is not in sight. Then the male interviewer bounces back with evidence that they did have a talk in a panel about the laws and the subject that James feels so passional about and he says he an go and look for it on Youtube and he ergues him to do so which is a good way on trying to show that they do care about his opinion but they have already had time to talk about it and they are talking about something different at this point in time while being polite and trying to get back on topic. While the interviewee has one last thing to say the female interviewer shows she has had enough and moves on by ignoring him and talking to someone else and cutting him off completely this is a bad way to do an interview and she is very unprofessional while the male interviewer tries to calm down the siations by also making the interviewee feel like his opinion is needed but not about the subject he wants to talk about and gives him references on when it was needed.