COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Interview 2
This interview is between the GMTV presenters and Guy Goma, discussing his interview on the BBC that didn’t go to plan, where he was interviewed as an editor of Newswireless.net, a specialist internet publication, when he really went for a job as an accountant.
The interview starts off with Penny Smith and Andrew castle start off the interview by showing a clip of the BBC interviewing Goma and the look of horror on his face. Penny then explains what happened. The interview you can tell already is light hearted as their all smiling and it is set in a bright room. Richard Arnold, another man in the interview, then compliments Goma and jokes around with him at the same time, you can tell by this that it is an informal interview as their posture is light, for example Arnold is sat with one leg crossed over the other with his elbow resting on the top of the chair, if it was a formal interview they would be sat straight with a more serious expression, also they all have big smiles on their faces, Penny also begins to ask a question, gets half through and stops to say something else, which wouldn’t happen in a serious interview.
After a few jokes, Penny shows the headline from “The Sun” that said “big bluffer” and again after a few laughs ask politely asked Goma what was going through his head. Goma replied nicely with a smile, and at first it was easy enough to understand what he was saying, but as he went on it was hard to understand him. They laugh at what he was saying and Penny goes on to ask him if he found it weird that they tried putting make-up on him when he was going for an interview as an accountant. Again Goma politely replies and after a while it was hard to understand what he was saying. Because it was an informal interview they did another flash back showing the look of horror on Goma’s face from his BBC interview while they were talking and making jokes about it. Arnold then goes off topic a bit saying he came to the set in 1997 to talk about the middle-east and said about how Penny “lost her marbles” asked him about Coronation Street.
Penny then goes back to Goma and immaturely shows Goma’s face from the interview yet again, they had a big laugh about it and asked him when he looks back at that, what he thinks, he replied with a smile saying it was terrifying for him and how it was his first time on television.
Later on Penny then goes on to ask Goma if he saw the time when they interviews a man about the price of beer going up when he was actually there for a different issue. So again another slightly going off topic. And they then go on to say how Goma needed an agent because every time that clip is shown he will get money for it, and again they made a joke about that. Penny then ends the interview by asking Goma if he enjoyed the experience and if he’s been asked for his autograph, Goma then gives his autograph to the GMTV team and they thank him with a few laughs and there are some claps in the background.
I thought this was a good interview because all questions were relevant and they weren’t statements or anything to make anyone feel uncomfortable. They were smiling and joking throughout the interview and I thought that it eased the tension but didn’t offend anyone. It didn’t really seem like an interview as they were all so relaxed, they were lounging about, the studio had cups of coffee/tea on the table with newspapers and it just didn’t seem formal.
Goma wasn’t a very good interviewee because his accent made it harder to understand him, he should have spoke slower and clearer so you can understand what he was saying. However he had a good posture and smiled throughout. Because this interview was easy going, it was easy to watch and there for if it was set in the morning I would be able to watch is, as it wasn’t and awkward interview.
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