Session: Interviewing with Creatives

Interview or Conversation

An interview is the exchange of information as a 'question and answer'.
What informs their life and their practice, all the people they know they will talk about.
Keep questions simple. 
Arrange the interview, will need contacting in advance, how long, the purpose, where will it be. All of these needs considering prior approaching potential interviewees. 
Preparation is key, an interview is better face to face but in some cases that may be impossible. 
Never take the easy route Skype/Facetime is an option, telephone or worst case a questionare. 
Why do you want to speak to a 'Creative Hero'?
Have a valid reason to want to find out things about them, how does their practice reflect their own personal life.
Plan, good planning, proper preparation and a sensitivity to the complex nature of interaction during the interview itself. 
Be attentive. 
Empathy, relax, take your time. 
Prompts, checking.
Inductions and formalities, recording, confirm things. 
Trust and rapport. 
Written notes, audio recordings, online record, using your initiative. 
The first question is significant, collect background information. 
Don't begin with anything contentious or abstract. 
Progress, keep checking you are getting the answers you need, keep checking you have covered everything.
Finishing interview, keep an eye on time, thank the interviewee, leave them with something about you. 
Post interview, transcribing, don't edit quotes. 
How can you use your interview, cop, dissertation, too good to waste this information. 

Interview examples - estudio 
Start building a list of people, why am I doing it.