The Interview and Questions

In June I interviewed my respondents with a list of questions about how they felt about what they were doing. All four respondents had been at The Lee Strasberg Institute for three months. (one semester) Two of them where continuing training, the other were to branch into the big bad world of performing.
I was able to interview them as I would see them everyday. Here is the list of the interview questions that I asked them:

• 1. What are you doing now? 
• 2. What has brought you here 
• 3. What is your strength in Acting?
• 4. How often do you practice relation?
• 5. How do you do you go about this? / What do you do?
• 6. Which area would you like to work in? (Theatre / Tv / Etc Etc)
• 7. Which area would you not like to work in?
• 8. On a scale of 1-10 how much do you enjoy what you are doing?
• 9. Why?
• 10. What would you change about what you are doing?   

I have learnt that interviews are a simple way to collect a lot of information as the person does not feel they have a limited time or space to say things. If I was to do this first section again I would have written my questions more open-endedly, so that the respondents could feel they had more to talk about. I am now holding onto this information waiting for the second part of my investigation to be complete.


I have now sent out my questionnaires, here are the list of questions that I used.

• 1. What are you doing now? 
• 2. What has brought you here? 
• 3. How have your strengths developed since leaving The Lee Strasberg Institute? 
• 4. How often have you been able to practice relaxation? 
• 5. How have you gone about this? / What have you done? 
• 6. Which area would you like to work in? (Theatre / Tv / Etc Etc) 
• 7. Has the way you audition for jobs changed? 
• 8. If so, How? / What do you do differently? 
• 9. On a scale of 1-10 how much do you enjoy what you are doing? 
• 10. Why? 
• 11. What would you change about what you are doing?  
• 12. How has The Lee Strasberg Institute changed the way you think about yourself?

I have learnt was that it was a good idea for me to change to a questionnaire over an interview. This is because I have been finding it difficult to get hold of the respondents as they are not only half way around the world, they are also as busy as I am. Changing this part of the investigation to a questionnaire meant that I am more likely to get my information back, as filling in a survey takes a matter of minutes, where as trying to contact each other via Skype etc would take much longer, if it was able to happen. If I was to do this again, I might have chosen respondents that were in the same country / city as me so that my investigation would become less complicated to complete.
I have received two of my four surveys. So I look forward to receiving them all, starting to analise the information and look into making my artifact.