Interview Analysis of a 10-min clip

• 1:33-11:00 minutes
• How did you found out about your Oscar nomination? 1:33
• (Follow up) about how this year's Oscar nominees was a tough category. 2:03
• Asking about if you were actually born in Los Angeles. 2:39
• (Follow up) your dream may have happened but would have taken longer. 4:37
• When did you want to become an actor? Since you started at a young age was it for a career or just for fun? 5:13
• (Follow up) Since you had done commercials, was it on the job training or had you done acting classes? 6:20
• What's it like auditioning at a young age and facing rejection? 7:22
• (Follow up) A real one? 9:38
• This Boy's life was your breakout role, were you on Growing Pains at the time and they had to let you out? 10:13

This interview was a great interview to examine the moves of the interviewer. Even though the video is an hour long I only examined about the first eleven minutes. The interview is similar to the Brad Pitt Interview because it is in front of a live audience. I chose this interview because I love Leonardo DiCaprio and this had a lot of content to work with demonstrating an interviewer's moves. She started out the interview by complimenting Leo which I see as a move to make him more comfortable in the setting of the interview. Having your interviewee comfortable with you is a major contributor to set up a successful interview. The more comfortable and relaxed the person is the more they will open up to you and your questions. If your interviewee feels uncomfortable with you they will keep their answer short and to the point and not open up about their life. Her first question was asking about the most recent event in his life which was his Oscar nomination. I felt as though that was a good opener for the questions to set the tone of the interview. The rest of her questions, in the eleven-minute interval that I watched, were about his childhood and the start of his acting career as a child. Starting the interview out on a simple topic is a good idea so the interviewee can warm up to you and your questions. Jumping right into deep or thought-provoking questions may take the interviewee off guard and make them uncomfortable. She had a bunch of follow up questions for him related to his responses to the original questions. I noticed that the questions she asked Leo that he responded vague or short answers were the ones that were very specific. The open-ended ones were the ones that he responded with long and detailed answers. I also noticed that the open-ended ones Leo seemed more interested in answering and made him think outside of the regular box of questions he gets asked. He probably gets asked the same standard set of questions during interviews so putting open-ended questions in the mix makes for more interesting answers. For example, when she asked him about how he felt getting nominated for an Oscar again his response was short and to the point. This also happened when she asked him about why he wanted to become an actor and if he did it for just fun or as a career. Most of the questions that prompted short responses, she would ask follow up questions for.  Her more opened ended questions like when she asked him about handling rejection at a young age had a longer response. He spends almost two minutes responding to that question alone. What I perceived from this interview is to ask more open-ended questions to gather a more detailed and long answer. It may also open the person up to discuss another topic that you did not write down. Open-ended questions also may make the interviewee more comfortable because you are not looking for a specific answer from them. It gives them an opportunity to explore any thought that comes to mind and there is no right or wrong. Another detail I liked from this interview was she never interrupted him during his interview.  Many other interviews if the interviewer had a follow up question they would interrupt the interviewee. By her, not interrupting Leo gave him the chance to give his full response to a question and collect his thoughts. He might have lost his train of thought and got irritated if she interrupted him, that is something that I see often in interviews. The interviewer will be over excited to interview the person that they will cut off their answers almost every time with a follow up. Personally, it looks unprofessional and uncomfortable watching interviews like that. By her keeping her cool, she managed to pull off a successful and interesting interview. This interview overall was a great one to examine for moves.