The non expert interview i have chosen to discuss is my interview with MS patient Sarah Cohan - Sarah is one of the first patients to be issued with Bayer Pharmaceuticals new product Sativex. I managed to acquire this interview after placing an advert on NORML UK's website. She contacted me and said she would be happy to help if we could schedule the interview around the numerous talks she does up and down the country. Because of these constraints I decided it would be best to conduct the interview over Skype.
The set up for the interview was extremely professional in my opinion - despite being over Skype. I had set up a camera to capture and over the shoulder shot of myself and the screen that Sarah was on. I also had a screen recorder running to make sure that I had variation of shots to switch between. As well as this i had a mic plugged in to the computer to get unadulterated audio from Sarah and I wore a lapel mic to get my audio with good clarity. With all these things set up I think I combatted the fact we were on Skype rather well. Given that I had every possible bit of equipment to make the interview as professional as possible made up for being on Skype.
The approach I adopted for this interview was light hearted. I understood that Sarah had recently come out of a serious relapse and didn't particularly want to start hounding her for certain answers. With this in mind I endeavoured to have a friendly chat with her but at the same time subtly angle the conversation to get the answers I wanted. I did this by asking her a broad question that would enable her to talk fairly freely and then offering her statements to comment on to bring her back on track. I think this worked well and Sarah seemed largely comfortable with the situation and gave some fantastic answers.
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