The interview, portraits and features
Wants to make you a report of analytical and interpretive, is often used to form the feature. Here, too, is not commented, but abstract facts can be explained by specific examples or stories to reality. The journalist must therefore follow, a feature not the strict rules of the message, he "translated" rather a big issue on the basis of an actual event, usually with an emotional touch. We all know the features of poverty in refugee camps or the many African famine area, where individual stories can be close to the great need throughout the region. Similar to the feature, a background report attempts by the representation of the context to bring more clarity to a message. A lot of research and analysis work is necessary, even if the journalist also follow the principles of neutrality has to knit. So he sticks to data, statistics, events or websites of the participating individuals or professionals to the background report as informative as possible but to also design free evaluation. The more sources are used, the more understandable, the basic problem or the original event, which is to be illuminated.
The most common forms of reporting by a reporter is one of the interview. In the question and answer exchange is a topic of personal, property, discussed or opinion based. Just this kind of dialogue is in the print media and television reports very popular and is often used in addition to reports and background reports. In reports can be for example an event by means of a substantive interview with a specialist are enriched informative. The press work of an interviewer also requires a lot of emphatic empathy, especially for personal interviews. Just think of the legendary tantrums a Klaus Kinski and the consequent silence of Helmut Berger. In such an interview is sometimes asked intuition and a little negotiating skills to bring out from difficult situations call an informative and interesting interview. Even trickier are often opinion-oriented interviews. In the opinion of a politician on corruption charges, it can sometimes be really rough going. Even the widely feared "no comment" a good interviewer with skillful demands can still turn in a decent interview situation. Of course, mingle with longer interviews often opinion-oriented, relevant and personal issues. During a talk show, for example, the interviewee will be asked questions about himself, on facts as well as to his personal opinion. The skill of the interviewer with this major contribution to quality of the interview and, when interviewed well and is exciting to captivate the viewer or reader normal. A Larry King is shown in the situation, even from a bone-dry yet scientists tease out the most exciting stories. And the distance free, trendy way of a Michael Friedmann quite a few graying politician has brought up a sweat.
Even more to the representational depth is a portrait. This hybrid of interview, documentary and feature of which is given freely and often, a person, but also portray a company or even an entire country. In magazines, broadcasts or Internet articles the informative nature of the report or the report with the personal views of an interview and sometimes combined with critical or polemical comments "seasoned". The shape of a Portrait in turn, requires the writer's art to present all relevant information as possible about a person, firm or similar in a few sentences. The reader or viewer should serve in spite of all possible comprehensive look at the facts. A job in the press very often requires the skill, in few words the most important information included in a brief.
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