First day Of Creative and media Diploma

8th of September
Today we had our first day with Mrs Woffinden focusing on Interviewing.  So first we had to get into pairs and ask each other about our creative art experiences.Then we came together and discussed how easy or hard it was to: Question the partner, Listen to the partner, speaking and recording the information.
 So first we discussed Questioning the partner: Well it was easy because i new my partner well and i really got involved with the story's she was telling me, this pushed me to ask deeper questions. But it was hard because you couldn't fill the time and it was hard to get your partner to open up to you. 
Then we discussed listening to your partner: It would make it easy if your partner was interesting  because you could concentrate on listening to them and felt engaged in the conversation. But you could make them open up by Active listening which means you would act to be interested even if it wasn't. This would make your partner feel confident and open up to you.
After that we discussed speaking: When you speak you don't have to impress your partner because this could lead to confusion, so just be yourself. And don't feel like you are being judged by your partner because this could make you feel under pressure.
Finally we discussed recording the information: When recording its helpful if you listen for the most important facts so you don't have to write so much and don't miss any important facts. Also using a Dictaphone or a camera to record and write later to get every fact. And its OK to ask someone to repeat the answer or question.
After all of this we then went  to practice our on site interviews, then we performed the interviews inside pretending we were still on site. after our performance we got some constructive criticism from the class: We may need to learn it a bit better and don't look so nervous, so just relax.
After Mrs Woffinden we moved on into Mr Romers room, here we researched many media venues in Leeds online, we then recorded the information into a data base as a class. We then made these blogs to record everything we do in these diploma classes.