Research Into Interviews

Our documentary will consist of a interviews of Naomi's parents, teachers, relatives and friends. they will be talking about Naomis journey with schizophrenia.

Frey and Oishi (1995) define it as "a purposeful conversation in which one person asks prepared questions (interviewer) and another answers them (respondent)"

So, interviews are very powerful in providing information on a particular topic or particular area to the interviewer and to the audience. Interviews have two structures; structured or unstructured. Structured interviews are where the interviewer has a set of questions and they cannot exceed those number of questions. On the other hand, unstructured interviews is where the interviewer starts off with a particular topic and then a discussion or conversation emerges.

In our documentary, we will have both a structured interview and unstructured interview. the reason for this, is because we want the participant to feel comfortable when answring the questions but at the same time we dont want it to go off the topic.

Advantages of carrying out an unstructured interview means that there is freedom of the participant to answer anyhow they prefer giving them a sense of control which means rich data will be gathered. However, it is time consuming for the sake that it asks open questions meaning that it can cause confusion or lack of understanding of the question.