- Choose your subject.
- Research is key to a good interview, makes you understand how accessible (or not) they are.
- Get in contact as soon as possible, make sure you have a back up plan.
- Aim to have the interview confirmation before Christmas and completed the interview by Jan.
- Check out their social accounts to get an idea of their availability and interests - if contacting their social media find the one they're most active on and approach them through this media.
- Look into previous interviews and make sure your questions are different.
- Do everything you can to gather a lengthy, interesting response.
- Let your research inform how you initiate contact with the professional.
- Move the conversation to face to face meeting if possible (worst comes to worst an email thread). Always try to get a phone call.
Hunting them down:
- Contact details on website or social media.
- Google the contact details.
- Carrying out a phone call interview or face to face is much more effective as you'll get a more lengthy response - better for a publication.
- hunter.io - use for domain searches
- Can guess an email address and see if it bounces back, put guesses into Bcc (they can still see you've tried one other email address).
- Consider using motion in the emails you send (as all emails look the same), such as a professional email and an email signature (can set this up in templates).
- Contact them on social media.
How to Proceed:
- If sending an email get to the point quickly and have a clear ask, direct and to the point.
- Having as many questions they might have answered in the first email to avoid them needing to ask anymore questions.
- Propose dates and times for interview in first email.
- Follow up with a calendar invite.
- Conduct the interview in person, over the phone or video call.
- Always a good idea to mention in the email about popping over to their studio with a photographer, sounds good.
Conducting the Interview:
- Make sure you've carefully prepared the questions - think about you motivations for the project.
- Be adaptable, but keep things on track - this will be easier when you've fully researched as much as possible.
- Ask permission to record the conversation (this can be done over the email, but make sure to remind them during the interview) - DON'T MAKE NOTES
- Always follow up and thank people for their time.
- Send the recording over to them and ask if there's anything they'd like you to leave out.
- Share the finished report with them -they could share it on their platform, gain visibility. Also allows you to build a professional relationship with someone in the industry. Make sure the images of your report are of high quality.
- Follow them on their socials.
- An opportunity to get in.
Write up and Design:
- Be creative - make it tell the story of the people you're interviewing.
- Think carefully about each design decision, make sure it's relevant to the medium you chose to present the report in.
- Proof read it - download gramarly.
- Get hold of some quality images - could maybe collaborate with a photography or illustration student. Ask them for any images they could send you that they are okay with you using.
- The wider a range of images you have the better you can pair them together.
- Having a photographer go with you to the interview is always a good idea.
Action Plan:
Find a list of freelancers, studios, and galleries to interview.
Send them all the same email, aim to have 4/5 responses to carry out.
Freelancers
Totally Okay http://www.totallyokay.co.uk/
Alex Birks https://alexbirks.co.uk/portfolio/
Galleries/Magazines
Site Gallery
Millenium Galleries
Graves Gallery
S1 Artspace https://www.s1artspace.org/
Now Then Magazine
Studios
The Designers Republic
93ft https://93ft.com/project/eroica-britannia
Side by Side http://side-side.co.uk/
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