I am going to ask my questions in three sections. This enables me to move the camera around in the room to get different viewpoints, it will also give both the interviewee and myself a chance for a rest from the camera.
About the subject;
· Can you describe yourself in three words?
· Why those words?
· Who is your biggest inspiration? Why?
· What would your ideal job be? Why?
· If there was one thing people could remember you for, what would it be?
About the subject’s heritage;
· How old were you when you discovered you were adopted?
· How did that make you feel?
· Do you think being adopted affected your upbringing/the person you are today?
· In what way?
· How do you think your life would have been different if you weren’t adopted?
· Did you have a close relationship with your adoptive parents?/Birth parents?
Traits/Traditions
· Do you have any characteristics from your birth parents?
· How does that make you feel? –are you glad you have a part of them?
· Do you have any traits passed on from your adoptive parents? –Expand
· Do you have any family traditions? – Expand
Evaluation of interview
Things that didn’t go to plan;
Once in the subject’s house I set up the camera for the interview in a corner of a small room, I decided not to move the camera around between the sets of questions as the room was too small and a different viewpoint would have included items within the room that I didn’t want to include. I would have been able to choose a different room so that I could move the camera around, however I decided that the small quiet room would give better sound quality and that was more important than viewpoint.
During the interview I also added some unplanned questions, after speaking to the subject some other issues/stories arose that she wanted to share/give her opinion of and I wanted them to be included in her oral history so added the questions on the end of the interview.
I asked the subject to briefly describe some of the items that she had set aside to show me as part of her history, I am thinking of putting these into the video with the explanation sounding behind it.
I am happy with the overall result of my interview. I felt prepared when I met with the subject, I tried to make her feel comfortable, I did this by explaining the interview well, I also let her look through the questions before filming to familiarise herself with them, I also asked if there were any questions she would prefer me not to ask. This gave the subject some confidence in me, it also meant she was openly discussing the agreed questions.
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