This week, the Circles crew sat down and discussed what we thought were the questions to ask our Expert Interviewees. In order to brainstorm these questions, we all worked together to come up with the bios our Expert Interviewees. As director and producer, Mariah and I came up with the bios and ten questions for two interviewees each and Matt and Hugh came up with 10 questions and the bios for one interviewee each.
The Expert Bios and Questions can be found here. You can also find it on the Google Drive. In summary, we decided to break up our Expert Interviewees into the three groups of women that we plan on interviewing: teenagers, mothers, and grandmothers. Within each group, we had experts who 1. talked behind her friend's back and 2. was talked about behind their back.
My group also spent some time working as a group to come up with 104 (that's right, 104!) things to schedule. This can also be found on the Google Drive, but you can also just click right here! Working as a team, it was a lot easier to get past 100 things on our list because we all brought in different perspectives
I also spent some time reading The Expert Interview. Something that I really liked out of the slides was the slide that mentioned the "softball" questions, which are questions to warm up the interviewee before getting into the hard questions. I think that using such warm up questions is a really good way to start off an interview in order for everyone to feel comfortable.
In the wise words of Alfred Hitchcock, "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
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