Interview Techniques in Radio

Interview Techniques in Radio

Different types of radio interviews:

1. Hard News Interview
2. Informal Interview
3. Investigative Interview
4. Adversarial Interview
5. Interpretative Interview
6. Personal Interview
7. Emotional Interview
8. Entertainment Interview
9. Actuality  
10. Telephone or Remote interview
11. Vox Pop
12. Grabbed Interview

Essentials before an Interview:

1. Having all the equipment sorted out
2. Knowing what is going to be said on your part (Script)
3. Having who you are interviewing on standby

Best questions to ask:

1. Questions about something they are involved in - To get some good information about their upcoming project
2. Something that is known about them and what they do in there spare time - To get some information of what they do out of what they are known for.
3. What they are planning in the future - To get to know of any upcoming things that may be happening with them.
4. Favourite things to be involved in - To know what they are interested in in both areas of what they do and out of what they do.

What to avoid asking in an interview:

1. Things that are very personal
2. Feuds they may have had with other people
3. Questions for them to bad mouth other people within their line of work.

Radio Analysis and Audience Task

Age	Gender	Listen to Radio?	Radio Station they listen to	Time	When	Where	How
38, Mother	Female	Yes	Capital FM	6:00pm	Cooking	Home	Radio
37, Father	Male	Yes	Kerrang!	5:00am	Working	Work	Radio
63, Grandmother	Female	Yes	Radio Humberside	Mid day	Driving	Road	Radio
18, Sister	Female	Yes	Kerrang!	6:00pm	Relaxing	Home	Phone

Age	Gender	Listen To radio	Radio I listen to	Time	When	Where	How
16	Male	Yes	Kerrang! Planet Rock Radio	9:00am - 5:30am	College	College	Phone

Analysis

From the results that I collected I can see that my family, from who I collected the data from all still listen to radio, this shows that radio is still very much alive and people still rely on radio to hear new music. My findings show me that radio consumption is still pretty high because out of everyone I asked nobody said they didn’t listen to radio of some sort. It also shows me that local radio is still or even more popular than it has been in the past.

Between different ages and genders there could be some changes within the consumption of radio but out of all my family there is not one person who doesn’t listen to radio. Similarities between the people who listen to radio are the radio stations they listen to, most of my family listen to the same sort of music with some exceptions, which shows a similarity between some station no matter what age they are. Different ages listen to radio at different times, my Granny listens to radio when they are travelling in the car so it depends on when they are driving to listen to radio. My Dad works early so he listen to radio at around 5am which is a lot different then most of us. My sister listens to radio at the evening when she has nothing to do. I listen to radio throughout the day while i'm travelling to college and through the day.

Radio and Audience Planning

Radio Station name

Galaxy Film Radio

Ideas

·         Film reviews

·         New and old films

·         Film a week

·         Special guests stars that help with the reviews.

·         Uncopyrighted jingle.

·         This week’s film releases

·         Most Anticipated film.

·         This week’s review.

Audience for the Station

·         People that understand film reviews.

·         Film lovers

·         People who want to know what a film is like before they go and see it.

·         Audience differs with each film based on who would want to watch it.