Unit 50

Today we had an interview with Jason from Histon (who wanted to remain mostly anonymous). Jason works for the BBC with kids tv. Now, what's interesting about Jason is that he is an artistic individual that makes photography a part of his everyday life, loves to paint and always keeps it modern. According to statements, Jason has been making sculptures of people's feet and expression when going through day to day life. Jason now owns an art gallery with all his pieces on sale and also deal his friends and family's art too, some of which are antiques dating back through his family line. Some of Jason's work has already been bought and as far as a part-time hobby goes, it is one of his most successful ones. Despite working with lots of younger children, Jason has made two careers for himself, although he has no family to pass this legacy onto, meaning that all of this is him working his hardest to make a happy ending for his family line, just hoping to make an impression...

During lesson 1 we have gone through and looked at open and closed questioning. Open questioning lets the interviewee answer and drives the conversation more while closed questioning keeps to shorted, yes and no type answers. With the questioning it is best, from my limited experience, to start off informal with the questioning and then move on to the open questions about whats interests they might have or what their greatest/newest achievement is. We have also tested what types of recording are best for what situations and have practised such recording methods. Generically microphones are better than using just your phone BUT it depends on the quality of the microphone.