ConductingInterviews

Notes from Art and Artifact by Lynn Z. Bloom

Keep your Purpose clearly in mind

• Is your focus on the subject’s life or personality?

Set up the interview in advance

Do your homework

• Research your subject well in advance of the interview.

Make a list of questions

• Your questions should be specific about the main issues and subtopics that you wish to explore.

• Keep values and judgments out of the questions.

• Avoid questions that lead• to “yes” or “no” answers.

Practice

Talk as little as possible during the interview

Be aware of subject when they make self-serving remarks or share biases.

Take notes and tape the interview

Prepare for the possibility of a return visit

Edit the interview

sources• http://www.flickr.com/photos/happeningfish/3007746661/#/photos/happeningfish/3007746661/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandoncwarren/4334456172/#/photos/brandoncwarren/4334456172/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/241843728/#/photos/striatic/241843728/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/12364944/#/photos/lwr/12364944/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3242519210/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/helga/4280550413/#/photos/helga/4280550413/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/missfortune/4745510286/#/photos/missfortune/4745510286/lightbox/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/missfortune/4825485291/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/355887968/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/cherie_priest/2385657551/• • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanhein/2298278791/•