Analysing Interview Techniques - REBECCA

• Name of interviewer
• Context (role and importance of interview)
• Purpose of interview (e.g. research, enhancement of audience, understanding, informative, expressing opinion, holding to account, justification, emotional appeal to audience)
• Question types (closed,open,single,multiple,direct,suggestive)
• Structure (intro,developmental questions, confidence-building,sound bites, summary,wind-up)
• Communication skills (building rapport, active listening, body language, telephone techniques to obtain comments or gather information)

Name of interviewer: Jon Snow
Name of interviewee: Vitaly Milonov

Starts with a quote from a Christian father
Milanov verbally attacks Jon Snow 'stop telling lies to your children'
Not much questions - a lot of statements made
Milonov always changed the subject to drugs and abuse, instead of focusing on the issue at hand which is homosexuality

The name of the interviewer is Jon Snow, a 67 year old presenter who has presented Channel 4 since 1989. He was interviewing a well-known Russian politician named Vitaly Milonov who is extremely against gay people. The role and importance of the interview was to get the views of a Russian homophobic politician who believes living as a homosexual is like 'living in a evil scheme'. It is also important to get a views of Vitaly's opinion on what he thinks living in Russia is like as a gay person. The purpose of the interview was to get the views of Vitaly Milonov, a homophobic Russian politician, after he said before, they should ban the chief of Apple, Tim Cook, 'for life' for being gay. It appears in the interview that Milonov is very expressive and believes strongly in what he believes in, and that is hating gay people. There is no emotional appeal to the audience but Milonov said it himself, that 'people in the UK and the western countries won't believe in what I'm saying. At the beginning of the interview, Jon Snow welcomed Vitaly Milonov and said to him a quote said by Father Sergei Rybko that said 'Where gays are around, pedophilla will flourish', and then he asked do you agree? This is a direct question to Milonov which showed Jon Snow immediately wanted to ask the major questions first just to let the audience know what they are talking about. During the interview, Snow wanted to always stay on the topic at hand which was homophobia and gay rights but Milonov always changed the subject and accused the UK instead of giving back answers.