When planning my interview, I was apprehensive about the organisation of the interview as I had originally emailed four record selling businesses within Brighton and got no response besides Derry, who was very flexible and easy to communicate with. One of the problems I faced initially was timing, we had to film outside of Derry's long work hours so it took considerable emails back and forth to finally book in an appropriate date for the interview to take place. We spent an hour talking before the interview began which I found was very helpful in helping me determine what questions would actually be most appropriate and it really helped us to both relax in one another's company which is very important- if someone is on edge you can usually tell through the fluidity of their voice. We were both prepared, Derry bought a small notebook with all of his notes in and I had an extensive list of questions and also was ready to ask any follow up questions if i heard something appropriate which I should ask more about for the benefit of the listeners.
Derry was very talkative and open in his answers which meant that I came out of the interview with fifteen minutes of recording. This wouldn't have been a problem if the brief had stated that the interview should be just three minutes long! So I knew I had a challenging editing job ahead of me but I was content with the engagement within his answers so I tried not to cut Derry off when he was mid speech.
One of the most charming things about the interview was derry's strong cockney accent which despite him residing locally within Brighton has stayed with him. I liked that it was clear where he came from and this will be clear to the listeners without even hearing him talk about moving to Brighton.
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