Broadcasting interviews with famous people. Interviews with famous people. Faina Ranevskaya: “But I don’t know how to play at all. I don’t understand what it’s like to play.”

1) informational - when a person is asked what he saw or heard;
2) interview-comments - when a person is asked for his opinion;
3) interview-portrait.

Rules for writing an interview

Prepare carefully for the conversation. Contact will not work if you do not understand who you are talking to and what you are talking about. You need to spend several hours studying a person: look through his blog, find out what they write about him on the Internet, etc. Only in this case will you understand why your character is interesting.

Be sure to read previous interviews with this person and do not ask questions that have already been asked. When you are asked for the tenth time about the origin of your pseudonym, it gets annoying.

For the same reason, do not ask questions whose answers can easily be found on the Internet.

Ask about things that interest you personally. Routine questions lead to routine answers.

How to arrange an interview

Try to illustrate the text with photographs whenever possible. Visualization of the image is very important.

If you are given a written interview, try not to edit the text.

Once again: the text can be shortened, forwarded - only in exceptional cases, when we're talking about about an obvious mistake.

Never publish an interview without agreeing on the final version.

Interviews are one of the most rewarding types of content.

You select questions, send them to the hero, receive answers, format them and - print! Of course, this is a superficial scheme for creating an interview. In fact, this is an independent and vibrant content format. And on the blog it looks very advantageous against the background of the usual articles, guides and news.

We have already prepared several materials on the topic of the interview. Now we will talk about the most important stage of preparing for an interview - questions.

When studying a hero, you want to ask him important and pressing questions at the same time. I would like the interview not to be boring, banal and typical. I want the reader to swallow it, savoring every letter, every line.

And at such moments, there is a really lacking selection of interview questions at hand that can be tailored to an individual character.

Interview Questions: 60 Templates

  1. Tell us about yourself and your business.
  2. How would you describe yourself in a few words?
  3. When did you decide to become_____ and why?
  4. What led you specifically to __________?
  5. What was the impetus for _________?
  6. What were the first steps?
  7. What are the pros and cons of being a _______?
  8. Describe your greatest achievement and most impressive failure?
  9. Describe three of your achievements?
  10. Are there times when you lose inspiration (lose faith in yourself, in your business)?
  11. Describe your work environment?
  12. Are you planning to change _______?
  13. What are your plans in _______?
  14. What is the secret to success in _____?
  15. How did you manage to achieve success in _______?
  16. What are your favorite books (movies, dishes)?
  17. What would you never do in life?
  18. Can it be said that ______?
  19. By what principle do you ______?
  20. Did you come to this position yourself or ______?
  21. How have you changed since _______?
  22. Do you love your job (business, product, service, cause)?
  23. What do you like to do in your free time?
  24. How to make ________?
  25. What advice can you give to newcomers (employees, readers)?
  26. When was the last time you _________?
  27. What interests you besides _____ and ________?
  28. How do you take a break from ____?
  29. How did you come up with the idea to organize ________?
  30. Did you do _____ on your own or with support?
  31. How often you ________?
  32. What do you think ________ is?
  33. In your opinion, what qualities should _____ have?
  34. Are you being yourself while doing your job, or is this a PR stunt?
  35. What is the share of luck and fortune in your project?
  36. Do you have your own motto or mission?
  37. You have already achieved a lot in your profession, has popularity changed you?
  38. How much time do you devote to ______?
  39. Why do you think such a point of view has formed in society (in the market, in a company, on forums, on the Internet)?
  40. What was the most difficult thing for you?
  41. Tell us step by step what needs to be done to _________?
  42. Where should a newcomer start if he wants to follow in your footsteps?
  43. What professional advice can you give to those who are just starting to develop in _______?
  44. What pitfalls might there be in your field?
  45. Is it difficult to do something that brings you money? What does it cost you?
  46. How did your first success come to you?
  47. How do others perceive your development (work, changes)?
  48. Where do you look for your customers (clients, buyers, investors, partners)?
  49. Don't you want to throw everything away and start something completely new?
  50. Tell us the TOP 5 most effective tactics (tips, tips, tricks, secrets, methods) in _______?
  51. What is your opinion on this question: ___________?
  52. Form your attitude towards life (business, family, colleagues, employees) in five words?
  53. What is the main expertise of a person at your level?
  54. Was it difficult to give up _______ (free time, stability, career growth)?
  55. Are you always this open (closed, aggressive, optimistic, fast)?
  56. How would you rate yourself as _______?
  57. Have you ever professional activity overstep your principles?
  58. In any business there are turning points. Which ones did you have?
  59. What hinders your life and what helps?
  60. What are you dreaming about?

Of course, these questions relate more to a personal interview rather than a professional interview. But in any case, each of them can lead to a chain of new ideas, which will eventually turn into a full-fledged conversation scenario.

What journalist doesn’t dream of doing at least one interview in his career that will be remembered even years later. And what PR person doesn’t dream of an interview with his protégé being like this? Of course, a lot depends on the personality of the hero, but even the most interesting interlocutor can become withdrawn if you ask him about the wrong things. We really love interviews and decided to collect in one place those that we consider almost standard. So, our selection of the best interviews. Read, watch, learn the art of building an interesting conversation and just have fun.

1. Interview with rapper Basta to Yuri Dudu

Yes, perhaps Yuri Dud later had even better interviews, but this conversation deserves special attention. After all, it was with her that the YouTube channel “vDud” began, and Dud himself then announced himself to a wide audience and, as a result, in less than a year became one of the most significant characters in the media community.

2. Svetlana Bodrova: “We just lived by it. And they were happy." Colta

The first interview with the widow of Sergei Bodrov, which caused a great public outcry and discussions on social networks. Be sure to read and understand why.

3. “Nose to nose #media.” Conversation between Elizaveta Osetinskaya and Demyan Kudryavtsev. Sostav

In general, the Sostav.ru “Nose to Nose” project, in which famous media characters interview each other, is all good. But we personally like this interview the most.

4. “The formula is simple: all swear words must be replaced with “I love” or “I don’t like.” "Afisha.Daily"

She’s like a medical cat, naked, who has absorbed all the disease, went and jumped out of the window, and her owner got into a car accident and survived... well, what?!

No problem, continue.

An excellent conversation between Roman Volobuev and the notorious director Valeria Gai Germanika.

5. Tatyana Tolstaya: “I can hit you in the face with a stick and a nail.” Magazine "Sho"

Brilliant, without exaggeration, interview with Tatyana Tolstaya to the Ukrainian magazine “Sho”. Links to the original are not publicly available, but the Internet is not without good people, so enjoy.

A lot of interesting things about the “School of Scandal” and famous people.

6. Jack Ma: “I haven’t received a salary for 12 years.” RBC

The first interview given to Russian media by the founder of Alibaba.

7. Interview with Mila Kunis. Radio 1 BBC

A funny interview between BBC radio presenter Chris Stark and Mila Kunis. The young journalist was very nervous because he needed to communicate with the star, which he told her about. "It's not the same chatting with friends in the pub that I'm used to," Stark admitted. After which the journalist and the actress begin to discuss cocktails, dishes, football, and in the end Stark even invites her on a date. And at the end of the conversation, the actress admitted that it was one of the best interviews in her life.

A video on YouTube with a recording of this interview has currently collected 14 million views and more than 11 thousand comments, and many Western publications have written about it. And Chris Stark himself subsequently made this informal approach his feature.

8. Faina Ranevskaya: “But I don’t know how to play at all. I don’t understand what it’s like to play.”

The only interview with the great actress Faina Ranevskaya, which she gave in 1979, when she was already 83 years old.

Watch from 4 minutes.

9. Interview with Princess Diana. BBC

A text version of Princess Di's very personal video interview she gave on the BBC's Panorama show in 1995.