To conduct a successful interview, you must be direct and ask questions that get straight to the point to avoid interviewees providing rehearsed answers. Open-ended questions should be asked to elicit more detailed responses from interviewees and allow them to provide additional information on their own. It is important to maintain focus on the selected topic and discipline during the interview to avoid going off-topic.

2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/skills/interviewing/article
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0 This video shows us that to have a successful interview and
get the answers that the viewers want, you have to be
direct. You have to speak on behalf of the public, as Paxman
does to politicians, criminals etc. This way you get to the
point of the interview quickly and efficiently and the
interviewee may not expect to be asked such direct
questions and therefore would give a better answer
without having a lot of time to make an answer up. He does
not show a great deal of empathy to his interviewees and
keeps it unbiased, which is good. He takes this direct
approach to criminal, politicians etc. so he can get to the
truth in serious matters. From this, we will take the advice
of not beating around the subject and ask the question that
we want the answer of.

3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/skills/interviewing/article
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0 From this, we can gather that if we ask open
questions, we will get a lot more in response
compared to a yes/no question. The more information
that we get, the more we can choose from to put in
our documentary. We can select the best parts of the
interview and put it in our documentary. Also, we can
ask add on questions to the answers that we are given
in order to gain further information as well. By asking
open questions, we can allow the interviewee to
reveal more information as we are letting them talk.

4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art201
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0 Montague suggests that we should pick a topic and
stick to it and to ensure that we are disciplined with
the topic. The longer the interview is, the easier it is to
go off topic but we will keep to the subject. Sackur
tells us to capture the essence of the interview in 2/3
sentences. This enables the point of our interview to
be known straight away and concisely. This would be
beneficial for the audience as it would be more
interesting to watch rather than questions that aren’t
related to the topic.