Whether I state this explicitly in an article or not it's good for me know where I am coming from and where any interviewees might be coming from too, such as what is informing their more deeply held assumptions.
In its contract, Clarence House demands prior approval of "all trailers, press releases and other promotional material" associated with an interview and to be given advance notice of the "identity of any interviewees or contributors" who feature in any programme.
If any interviewee were to mention the possibility that Marley had nicked the Banana Splits TV theme tune for Buffalo Soldiers, then that interviewee would undoubtedly be taken out and savagely beaten, with the cameras rolling.
I'm pretty sure he would struggle to identify the Guardian on a newsstand, and he greets me with the giddy intimacy of a fellow guest on a hen night, yet his attention is more engaged than almost any interviewee I can recall.
Receiving what seems to be more screen time than any interviewee, Mr. Simon makes at once a fine, friendly narrative guide; a restrained voice of moral outrage; and, as the movie builds to its sweeping conclusions, a conspicuous stand-in for Mr. Jarecki.
If you're taking a laptop computer with you, have both digital and print copies of your information available, for your convenience in research and for the convenience of any interviewee not comfortable with looking at a computer screen.
This seems weirdly out of character, and she's at a loss to explain it, but any potential interviewees who lose their nerve should probably suggest New York for a location.
If I was going to ask any other interviewee about difficult topics I would probably have a chat beforehand to prepare them.
"They are there, just like any other interviewee, to answer my questions – and I'm going to ask you the questions I want to ask you".
The whole act (and it is, to an extent, an act he admits his on-camera persona is "at least a little bit" artificial at this point) would be insufferable if it wasn't for the precisely calculated moments in which Theroux is able to rectify the power imbalance between him and any given interviewee with a self-deprecating Louisism.
This isn't to suggest any of these interviewees were making things up: their reactions are authentic.
