Interviewing a person is not an easy job. We saw people interviewing others so easily, but it doesn’t seem same while interviewing. Not most, but maximum people get nervous while interviewing others. To conduct better interview you must have an arrangement, preparation, the actual interview, and the reconstruction. To become a journalist is not a joke. They have all those experience to conduct interview, collect and distribute information about current events, people, trends and issues.
Today I will write my experience of interviewing a person which was conducted on October 24, 2011 on Zuccotti Park in New York to check out the Occupy Wall Street movement. My friend Deva was with me during that interview. I have seen it on TV and have certainly read about it via different channels on the internet, but it’s always good to see things first - hand before building an option or making any kind of statement. I just heard on news, television and internet about occupy Wall Street, but I don’t have any idea what the heck is going on down there. So, by going over there and interviewing people I get more information about occupy Wall Street and get some experience of interviewing people. My initial impression and expectation were too high. Its disorganized, smelly mess with no central message focused out research. Our main aim was to collect some news about occupy Wall Street by interviewing people, so we catch one lady who was over there with her own story.
Firstly we were nervous to take an interview and have introduction with that lady. So we firstly introduce our self and told our basic purpose of visit over there. Then the lady was ready for interview with us. Initially we ask her personal information, and we went to occupy Wall Street. Her name is Stephanie Mcilhenny, and she is from Texas. We were afraid to ask her age, but we did it and she told her age as 24. She is resident of Texas, but she move to New York for her studies. She used to study on Manhattan College, and it’s been like one year she is taking break from college due to her economic condition. She is independent and she doesn’t work. It was private college, so even if she gets lots of financial aid it was not enough to pay her tuition fee. She has to pay from her pocket. She still has lots of money to pay for college. Her main protest over there was to help student by giving safety, better aids, and health care. She also added human rights in her protest. In present she doesn’t have any job, but she used to work on library in college. She was there for protest because of her cousin. She is expecting that the government will look over their protest and response them soon.
I feel so great after taking interview. During interview we recorded video to save interview. When I saw that video I feel happy and I found my weakness over there. So I think this interview help me a lot to improve my weakness and mistake.
