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acy1002 Public Speaking & Communication. Media interviews for video & radio Lecture 9 Dr Eloise Brook Eloise.brook@vu.edu.au. Key issues in this lecture. Interviews as exchange . Exchange of knowledge. Exchange as such. Interviews as agenda . Serving specific purposes.
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acy1002Public Speaking & Communication Media interviews for video & radio Lecture 9 Dr Eloise Brook Eloise.brook@vu.edu.au
Key issues in this lecture • Interviews as exchange. • Exchange of knowledge. • Exchange as such. • Interviews as agenda. • Serving specific purposes. • Used in particular sorts of situations. • What do interviews tell us about public speaking more generally? • Work ahead.
Media interviews as exchange of knowledge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQdt2NzIz8 What knowledge does Christine Milne share here? What knowledge does Chris Uhlmann share?
Media interviews as exchange ‘as such’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/sep/11/dennis.potter Why does Dennis Potter tell us these things? What is Melvyn Bragg also telling us?
Media interviews serving specific purposes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIbEJz23uY What is Joe Hockey’s agenda here? What is Penny Wong’s agenda? What is the questioner’s agenda? Tony Jones’s?
Media interviews in their particular situations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoSiJ5RL20 … But how do we characterise this situation? Does anyone have an agenda? Is anything being exchanged?
What interviews tell us about public speaking generally • Interviews involve questions and answers, more than structured argument, but they can say things (‘speak truths’) very clearly about public life. • … So what does this interview say about public life? (Or just about interviewing itself?) • http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/video/default.htm?program=enoughrope&pres=20081027&story=1
Work ahead… Reminder: the Progress Reports for Assessment #3 (Major Group Presentation) are due Tuesday this week Assignment #3 Friday afternoon. Final draft of Progress Report due Tuesday 10th December One final assessment #1 Presentation Almost there!