This week I finally had the chance to ask my questions! I met with my “NewBorn” person to do the interview. We actually discussed the topics of the interview earlier, which made it easier for both of us to focus on the main story we wanted to tell through the documentary. However, before it came to the FUN part, which was the interview for me, there was the process of preparation.
Firstly, I asked myself what exactly I want to show in the documentary of Bardh as a Youth Activist here in Prishtina, Kosovo. That’s why I thought it is a good idea to first meet with Bardh and get to know him – and yes, after our first meeting, in which Bardh told me a lot about his personal life but also about his activities as a youngster I had pretty much an idea of what the story of Bardh in this Newborn Documentary would be. Bardh was a very cooperative parner in this whole process with his own creative ideas he gave a lot of input in this first phase of the project.
The next step was the preparation of the Interview Questions. Since I had kind of the idea of how the story would be like, I had to think about adequate questions that support the story. This part was a little hard since I had to make sure that the questions connect and a “flow” is created, but I think I did a pretty good job on that.
The third step was to communicate to Bardh the main idea and ask him if we could get pictures of all those events he would talk about in the interview. Since there are not so many activities in Summer, it was kind of hard to get pictures of him in action while debating or at another movement he is part of, however, Bardh had some photos of those particular moments and we used them to supplement our Documentary with suitable pictures.
These were the 3 steps I had to take before doing the interview. I really liked working this way, but it was also necessary of course because I wanted to be ready and well prepared when I met Bardh for the Interview.