Interview questions

Interview questions

What do you enjoy most about St John ambulance?

I believe this question will share the different activities that SJA put forward for young people, because I am trying to advertise Sja I thought this question would be a good idea to share and put forward an unbiased view on what positive aspects there are. 


Do you believe that St John ambulance is advertising the organisation enough? How do you think they should advertise?

I will ask this question to young people in and outside of the organisation if there is much notice and information, and asking what would be an easy way for others to know about the service in the future. 

How did you find out about this organisation?

This question will be asked to see what young people know and how they find out about how to join different organisation’s like 'SJA'. This question will try to gather information about what the organisation needs to do to encourage more young people to join.

What are your best memories of your time in this organisation? 

Again I will use this question for the cadets to share exciting and interesting stories and duties they have come across with their time, which could be used as a persuasive technique to intrigue a listening audience.

What do you think this organisation has given you?

The aim of this question will be to use personal stories to give more information that cadets have done. This will advertise what activities go on during sessions and what skills you will learn and pick up from your time there. 

What do you wish to achieve at the end of your time here in this organisation?  

This will give a listener career options and openings that come with joining this organisation and how cadets are openminded and are ready to commit and go forward with their goals. 

Assignment 4

Refine ideas as result of your pitch

When presenting my pitch, peers that I was presenting to give me helpful feedback sharing the positives and negatives I showed as well as things I could change and make better for another project. Most of my feedback was positive, sharing how they agree I met most of the points on how to present a successful pitch. I did get a comment on how I presented what was on my PowerPoint, saying that I talked fast when sharing certain aspects of my idea. To make sure this doesn’t happen next time, I will rehearse and plan what I am going to say in advance so I will be more confident when presenting, giving me more clarity and a better pace whilst talking, which is a very important part of successful pitching.  

1. Conduct interviews in line with plans, including addressing and accommodating the following:

In preparation before recording my radio interview I will be going and looking at different preparations to think about. I will not be interviewing any one in the media eye (celebrity’s) for my radio package. Meaning I will not need to go through an agent or manger to ask permission and get clarification for them to take place in my interview. I will be using cadet’s aged 13-17 from Highgate division that I know personally so will not need to go through anther person for their permission.  I am using young people under the age of 18, I will need permission from the cadet’s parents to allow them to be recorded. Because the organization works with young people a letter has gone to parents asking if any recordings or footage is allowed tone taken when in division location. Checking the files at the division the cadets I want to include have all shown that their parents have singed allowing them to take part in activities. I will also ask personally if they want to be included and used in a radio package. Before the interview is recorded I will first go through my questions I will be asking my interviewees, their opinions or any problems that they have, what they would like to address and change. I have also gone through the unit manger at the division to ask for permission to take and use this issue for my radio package as well as using the location, swell as taking the chosen cadets out of their lessons on Monday nights.

I will also be focusing on the structure of my interview thinking about my interview styling. I will be using a lighthearted relaxed tone when asking questions and speaking to the young people. Before starting the questions I will just be starting the radio package introducing the cadets well as the issue I am taking on. Starting with why I am here talking about this issue, starting with a human-interest piece about my time in the organization. I will manly be asking short open questions, which I have explained in past posts.

I will be recording this radio package at the Highgate division in Gesbach road on Monday the 8^th of December and Monday 15^th of December as well as Thursday the 11^th of December. At around 7-9pm. I will be using the outside reception seating area of the location, using a flip camera and microphone to pick up the audio. There are no windows in this area and most things in the room are covered in fabric like the chairs and carpet. The walls have some fabric notice boards. Although I am not filming in a recording studio where the ambient is clear I will be filming in a room, which is quiet and has no noise distraction. I will also show the questions to the interviewees before I start recording, this is so that they understand what they have to say making it easier to talk when being recorded. 

Interview questions

What do you enjoy most about St John ambulance?
Do you believe that St John ambulance is advertising the organization enough? How do you think they should advertise?How did you find out about this organization?What are your best memories of your time in this organisation? What do you think this organization has given you?What do you wish to achieve at the end of your time here in this organization?  

2. Interview ready

I am starting to plan what is needed to have a professional and well organized interview. I attend the division every Monday so I will be working alone, setting up the flip camera and recording by myself. I will hope to finish recording by Thursday night at 9pm (this is without going back and re touching certain recordings) and start editing on Friday in school lesson times by putting it together and cleaning certain footage.  I have picked and studied in detail my content, which I have gained permission to use, which I have gained from a verbal talk with the Highgate units manger, which has been shared and talked about in my proposal. I will be hiring a flip camera and microphone from Acland Burghley School. I have provided a risk assessment sheet of the certain risks that could take place in the location and ways to prevent these risks.

I will be using Premier Pro to edit my audio recording because of my past use and its high Tec Media editing software. I will put together the audio to make sure it flows and sounds like a realistic radio interview that would be placed on Radio 4.  Altogether I believe that my radio package is well put together for its target audience of 13-17 year olds.

Proposal

Target audience and main context of radio package

I am going to produce a radio package including informational facts about the organization St. John ambulance. I am also going to advertise and try and recruit an age range of 13-17 year olds. I would like to use this age range due to them being the right age to be a member of the St John ambulance cadets. I also would like to target an audience who are interested in doing something with their spare time and would like a responsibility that is highly looked upon for a young person. I will be looking to try and spot aspires; young people who aspire to be better and want to do something for their community.

I am going to be using lighthearted tone when asking multiple, direct and open questions. I will be using a soft tone due to the people I am going to be talking to, as well as using open questions asking them what they enjoy most about St John ambulance. I will also asking questions about the history of ‘SJA’ for an audience listening can understand why this charity is around and why it is still in action.

Equipment requirements and time scheduling  

I am going to be using a flip camera from school (Acland Burghley) as well as a microphone to record the interview that I will also borrow off school for this session.. I will be using the outside kitchen area to record my interview at Highgate division (Gesbach Road), on Monday nights from 7-9 pm.  Because I am the only one who attends this division from my Media group and have a schedule for the Mondays nights I will be working alone. Nothing will need to be paid for when at the location or getting to the location because of free public transport, St John ambulance own the building at this location so no need to rent out for the time period. Interviewees also use free public transport as well as driving to the division. I have also created a production schedule including all the days were the division is not and is meeting. Starting the interviewing session at 7:20 pm and finishing before break, which is 8:05. I will be recording on 3 Mondays to make sure I have collected enough information from the cadets and making sure I have asked a variety of ages to make my radio package effective for an audience listening.

Journalistic context

I am going to place my radio package on Radio 4 on the segment ‘Secondary’, which talks about many issues and gossip related to students who attend secondary school. This segment starts at 4pm and ends at 5pm giving an hours air time to talk about these different issues. I will be trying to get 10 minutes of airtime to talk about my project of ‘SJA’. I choose this radio station segment 'Secondary' due to the target audience that listens. This radio segment is meant for a younger audience, playing recent popular music and talking about gossip and issues, which fits well with the audience I would like to advertise the organisation to. The segment that I would like to feature on is the right target audience for my project to be shown to, creating interest and understanding about the orginisation I am trying to advertise.

When looking more into Radio 4 and the section that I would like to feature in the context they air main purpose it to inform young people about certain topics that affect them. For example information about results days. My project is different from what is normally placed in this section because I am trying to inform them about an organization that they can join, advertise why young people should be interested. My radio package will be called ‘Amelia’s corner’ that will then be added to the segment ‘Secondary’.

Proposal and pitch

Purpose and research:  Identify potential areas of interest. 
The areas that I find of most interested to my purpose of  an informative and recruitment interview is the voice of the younger cadets in the division, trying to see why they think St John ambulance is a good organisation to join. I will be also getting in contact with Officers and Youth leaders of Highgate division to hear why they think cadets should join the organisation. Also giving small bits of information about the history and future of 'SJA'.

Background history of St John:  http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/about-us/our-history.aspx'St John 'Ambulance is the UK’s leading provider of first aid training. As a charity, our volunteers provide vital first aid cover for the public ‒ at national events like the London Marathon, and locally at football matches and village fêtes. St John Ambulance is also a youth organisation: more than half of our 23,000 volunteers are under 25.'

-'Our proud heritage goes all the way back to 11th century Jerusalem, where the first Knights of St John set up a hospital to care for sick pilgrims.'

-'Each year we appoint a County Cadet of the Year, and they attend a residential weekend event, where a National Cadet of the Year is chosen. You can take part in camps and adventure activities.'

-'The Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem originated in a hospice founded around 1070 to care for pilgrims. The brothers and sisters of the Hospital, which was recognized as a religious Order by the Pope in 1113, nursed the poor and sick of any faith. The brothers also took on the role of defending Christians. When Jerusalem was lost in 1187, they established their headquarters in Acre on the coast of Palestine, before moving to Cyprus and then in 1309 to Rhodes. In 1530 they were given Malta, which they governed until they were expelled by Napoleon in 1798.'

- St Johns ambulance was founded in 1922, and has grown to one of the biggest youth organisations in the united kingdom. 

- 127 years of first aid delivery 

Purpose of research

1.     There are many reasons why you should research your idea. You need to understand and really look into your target audience to understand what they are most interested in. This helps you conduct your interview and direct it into a way, which is effective, and grabs the attention and the views from that target audience you are aiming for. You also need to see what questions you are going to ask. Are you getting the right information out of your interviewee? Is your interviewee the right person subject for your task? Are they clear enough for your interviewee to give a direct and clear answer? You also need to think about how to put certain ideas across about the subject you are talking about. For example finding more information about the cadets and how their numbers have decreased, to ask suitable questions, to the different people I will be asking. I also need to know what lessons take place at the Monday sessions, which helps me understand what the different people I am interviewing are talking about. I also need to make sure I research different radio interviews I would like to refer to when creating my own, to help with they way I communicate with my audience and how to style this interview. If i am talking to someone who is part of an organisation, i have to know and look up imprint facts about it. For example with St Johns ambulance i have to know the history of how St John started, how the cadet youth group came along, and also more about the division itself and how that first started, This helps me ask more in depth questions about the subject i will be asking getting more in depth answers that will be a better radio package for my audience and for myself getting the best out of my interview. I should also look more into the certain people i will be interviewing, because they are certain ranks in this youth group, i should find out more of there person and how they got their rank and their job in the youth division. 

2. 

Here is an example of a radio package that is a primary source of research; this is because the information being told is from the celebrity herself, which in this case is Cher Lloyd. It also shows small signs of secondary research talking about another person in the interview from someone else. Using a primary source for an interview, which is informational is more reliable because you are talking to the main person directly, making sure that all information given is not a rumor or made up. This makes a successful radio package because an audience is getting the information from the main source making what they say more believable. The target audience for this interview is for around 13-19 year olds due to the radio package this interview is on and the celebrity that is being interviewed. This is helpful when I start thinking about my radio package, because mine is aimed at the same target audience, helping me with ideas and a structure to lead me with my radio package.  This interview has a small amount of Conflict and controversy, because Scttro the interviewer isolated Cher Lloyd during a live acoustic performance calling her fans 'Wankers' when introducing her on stage. Having this conflict attracts the attention of an audience and industry.     

A radio package that i am going to look into for inspiration when recording and putting together my radio interview is an interview from Radio4's section 'Secondary' with the presenter Maria Campbell interviewing a head teacher from Regents high secondary school. When interviewing she uses many open questions, asking him questions about how he runs the school and the changes that are going to come in the future for this school. She uses single and multiple direct questions in a light hearted tone  to make the atmosphere feel comfortable when talking and sharing ideas. I am also intrested in the way that the radio package was edited, using jingles at the start when introducing herself and the show, creating a relaxed and fun feeling when an audience listening. 

3.

I also have another example of a Radio package that I would like to go by and take things out of, which is an interview with a group the Vamps, here again they ask many open questions, and multiple question to get out more then one bit of information, trying to get information and to promote them as an artist as well as recent albums they have created. Again this is also a comical light hearted to create a comfortable atmosphere for them both as well as an audience watching. This is again something i would like to go by because of the techniques that are being used because of the target audience that this interview is being targeted at.