Interview Technique

With an interview looming tomorrow i thought i would write a little something about it, so I've read up on some interview techniques. Some of these techniques include making sure that the contributor is comfortable and at ease, this way they are more likely to relax and give good answers, its also a good tip to ask them if they could try and include the question within the answer as in the edit you may not have the question included so would sound rather odd. Its important to actively listen so that if they give a good answer you can ask them followup questions so that you can get a lot of information on it. It's also a good idea to make sure you don't fidget or play with paper when interviewing and also make sure the interviewee doesn't do this, so sitting the interviewee on a still chair and taking away things they can play with is important. Also if you ask questions at the start of the interview it is more likely that the interviewee will be slightly nervous or not warmed up so ask a few simpler questions at the start then when they get talking ask the more in depth questions, also if they don't answer a question how you would like you can ask the question again at the end, but remember to tell not to say "as i said before" because it is likely you wont include the previous answer in the edit. When interviewing on camera its a good idea to place the person asking the questions right next to the camera so they are looking towards the camera. I intend to use these techniques in my interview tomorrow so hopefully i wont forget them!!!!!!!!!