"In common parlance, the word 'interview' refers to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee."
Techniques for conducting interviews with entertainers and industry professionals.
Preparation: How to prepare for an interview by researching the interviewee and thinking of questions beforehand.
Setting up the Interview: How to reach out and schedule the interview with the interviewee.
Types of Interviews: Understanding the different types of interviews including face-to-face, telephone and email interviews.
Building Rapport: Creating a comfortable and friendly environment to build rapport with the interviewee and make the interview run smoothly.
Questioning Techniques: How to ask open-ended questions, follow-up questions, and avoid leading or biased questions.
Listening Skills: How to effectively listen to the interviewee's responses and ask further questions based on their answers.
Body Language and Non-Verbal Communication: Understanding how to read and respond to the interviewee's body language and non-verbal cues.
Overcoming Obstacles: Handling interviewee's nerves, hostility, or unwillingness to participate.
Managing Time: Proper time management to ensure all questions are asked and answered within a set amount of time.
Follow-up: How to follow up with the interviewee to thank them for their time and maintain a professional relationship.
The Standard Interview: The most common type of interviewing where interviewer asks questions and interviewee responds.
The Profile Interview: Focused on the interviewee’s personal life and achievements.
The Q&A Interview: Similar to standard interview, Q&A also allows the interviewee to answer questions in a more conversational manner.
The Group Interview: Interviewing multiple celebrities at once.
The Press Conference: Interviewing a celebrity in a large group setting with multiple journalists.
The Telephone Interview: Conducting an interview over the phone.
The Email Interview: Very structured interview via email.
The Skype/Facetime Interview: Face to face video interview with a celebrity.
The Red-Carpet Interview: Quick Interviews with celebrities at events.
The Follow-Up Interview: A second interview with a celebrity.
"The interviewer asks questions to which the interviewee responds, usually providing information."
"A job interview or interview with a witness to an event may have no other audience present at the time, but the answers will be later provided to others in the employment or investigative process."
"An interview may also transfer information in both directions."
"Interviews usually take place face-to-face, in person."
"Interviews may be separated geographically, as in videoconferencing or telephone interviews."
"Interviews almost always involve spoken conversation between two or more parties."
"In some instances, a 'conversation' can happen between two persons who type their questions and answers."
"Interviews can be unstructured, free-wheeling and open-ended conversations without predetermined plan or prearranged questions."
"One form of unstructured interview is a focused interview in which the interviewer consciously and consistently guides the conversation so that the interviewee's responses do not stray from the main research topic or idea."
"Interviews can also be highly structured conversations in which specific questions occur in a specified order."
"They can follow diverse formats; for example, in a ladder interview, a respondent's answers typically guide subsequent interviews, with the object being to explore a respondent's subconscious motives."
"Typically, the interviewer has some way of recording the information that is gleaned from the interviewee, often by keeping notes with a pencil and paper, or with a video or audio recorder."
"The traditionally two-person interview format, sometimes called a one-on-one interview, permits direct questions and follow-ups, which enables an interviewer to better gauge the accuracy and relevance of responses."
"It is a flexible arrangement in the sense that subsequent questions can be tailored to clarify earlier answers."
"Further, it eliminates possible distortion due to other parties being present."