Expert Interview - Teachers

1. Expert Interviews
- Teachers

2. As part of our documentary, we needed to have
expert interviews included. This makes the
documentary more reliable for the audience, as
professionals are easy to trust due to their
expertise in the subject.
For our documentary, we decided to ask two
health and social teachers at our college for their
opinions on fast food. These are the questions
that we asked them...

3. 1) As a health and social teacher,
what is your opinion of fast food?
This is a good question to include in our
documentary because it allows the audience to
see the opinion of the interviewee. For this
reason, the audience realise that the focus on fast
food is negative because of the viewpoint
expressed by the health and social teachers. This
use of mediation and bias allows us to prove to
the target audience that fast food is bad, just as
the health and social teachers will tell them.

4. 2) Do you think that it is an issue for
young people?
This question is more directly focused on the
target audience, as it is relevant to them. The
interviewee may list some of the reasons they
believe this, which will contribute to our argument
in order to persuade the audience.

5. 3) Do you think that fast food
impacts children's learning and
academic performance?
As the majority primary target audience will be
older teenagers who are in full time education, this
will be a 'hit home' question for them. The fact that
their eating habits are most likely having a
negative affect on their education is going to throw
them off and further persuade them to our
argument.

6. 4) Do you think that students are
aware of the long term health
implications of the consumption of
fast food?
Here, the target audience will be made vunerable
to the idea that the food they're eating now will
implicate them in time to come. The interviewee
may list some of the health problems, which will
further persuade the audience of the negative
affects.

7. 5) What would you say are the main
health implications of fast food?
Again, this question links to the previous one.
This means that the target audience are again
opened to the negatives of fast food and how it
can directly affect them.

8. 6) Do you think that the canteen
offers enough healthy options?
Here, we could use our pan shots and other
frames of the canteen area to support what the
interviewee is saying. This footage will be used
with a voice over of the subject in order to back up
and reiterate what they are saying.

9. One of the health and social teachers that we are
going to interview, called Maxine, works with
groups of students to promote healthier lifestyles.
We are planning to ask her more questions about
this, because it will emphasise the importance of
healthy eating.