Friday, March 1, 2013

A good interview

In this interview Christina Radish interviews Darren Aronofsky, the director of the movie Black Swan as well as Natalie Portman who stars in his film. This is an example of a great interview because all of her questions are open ended and have space to be answered in many different directions. For example, her first question is about his first meeting with Natalie Portman. This is a good question because not only will he tell you a story about their meeting, but also there is space here to tell us what he thought about her personality, first impressions maybe even give us a few quotes. The more information you can get from one question the better because it can lead to more questions and interesting conversation. Also something smart that Radish does is ask her question in ways that it can't be closed-ended. For example she asks Natalie why this was a dream role for her. She never asks if this ever even was a dream role for her but she had to obviously do some background research on Natalie to ask this question which is a good quality to have. This interviewer knew exactly how to pose this question in order to get a more rich response.

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