I didn’t know the band before I decided to do the story on them. But as the article ” Sound in the Story”suggests, I met the band members many times in my spare time to get familiar with them, as well as to build a rapport with my interview subjects.
I did my interview on Tuesday and before I went, I listed several questions I thought would be important to my story. But the feeling of the interview was a little bit weird. Because we are friends now, so the interviewee might not take the interview seriously. And for me, wearing a headphone, holding a microphone and interviewing a friend is a weird experience. And when I asked him some questions about the band, he would make the answers begin with “you know”, because he knew that I had known the information already. Of course, I can cut out the “you know” later, but I just doubt, if we have to interview a friend, how to deal with the personal relationship properly to avoid the weird feeling?
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