Plan for the questions in my first interview for my Final Task

My first interview in my final task will be on subject 1 (Alexei) in which I plan to change some of the questions to suit my topic more. I want to keep the idea of him moving out and the topic of loneliness as I believe it directly correlates to my topic, however, I want to cut the stuff about the past. It will make my final interview more heartfelt.

Therefore I have planned to change some of the questions in my interview, but this is only a plan of the questions, later in the week I will post a blog confirming my final questions in the interview. My first ideas for the questions that I will be asking will conduct the following:

How has the whole process of moving out been for you?

What is a loneliness to you?

Are you lonely?

I believe by cutting the questions much shorter will have a far greater impact on my documentary. I believe that these questions are perfectly correlated with my topic, and will provide a good structure for the start of my documentary.

However, these are only a plan so far and I will be constantly thinking of different ideas that I can use in my interviews. I have cut down the number of questions to 3 as I would rather be there before focusing on the topic of loneliness rather than, have more questions but less focus on each individual topic.

Additionally, I may also not choose to go down the path of loneliness, but instead the path of depression among men. A few examples of the questions I would ask for this topic would be...

Has moving out caused your depression?

How have you challenged this depression?

It is worth mentioning that I am more inclined to do the set of questions about loneliness, as I already know I will receive the answers that I want.

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