Interviews in our Documentary

Interviews are a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer and answered by the interviewee. The interviewee will answer various questions giving the audience an understanding of his/her opinion about a subject. In a documentary the interview is extremely effective as it enables the documentary-makers to find out information e.g. opinions, facts and figures and in a documentary interviews also give a sense of realism. Anyone can be interviewed depending on what information the documentary-makers are wanting to access. The interview itself does not actually have to be on the screen, it can also be off-screen. Overall interviews in a documentary give a subjective account to what the documentary is relating to, sometimes this account could disagree with the overall moral of the documentary to give both sides of the argument and let the audience give their own opinion but generally most documentaries contain interviews that support the overall vocal point of the documentary.

Stadiums: Head 2 Head

For our documentary, the interviews were effectively used to show a subjective account of a season ticket holder from each football club, Chelsea and Fulham. These interviews allowed me to ask them a series of questions relevant to the set question to allow us to get a deeper understanding of their opinions of the football clubs and how they are treated/rewarded for paying to be a season ticket holder. For our audience each interview allows them to understand why they pay the money to go, what rewards they get for paying, and it gives them an idea of how much they had to pay to be a season ticket holder. The Chelsea season ticket holders interview will take place in a location away from the stadium itself, but it will be a different location to where the Fulham season ticket holder will be interviewed which will also be in a separate location to the ground. Overall these interviews may will help us in identifying which stadium is better, our target of the documentary.