Discuss in pairs or small groups.

1. Talk about any interview that you have watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?

2. The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.

3. Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.

 

1. Directions: The students can watch or read an interview of a politician or a bollywood actor. Some of the issues that can be discussed are: The celebrity and his/her life His/her work and the career The interviewer, his questions and his mood The way the celebrity answers the questions- his language, mood, gestures, body language The views and opinions of both the interviewer and the interviewee 2. Each medium has positives and negatives – yet, television is the best medium – more enjoyable and eyecatching – visual medium allows us to observe the celebrity, his gestures, expressions and body language – helps connect better with the interview 3. Everyone has a right to maintain his/her privacy – wrong to ask private and humiliating questions about his/her past – wrong to consider the private life of public figures as public – once their privacy is breached, it may be difficult for them to recover – may affect their personal relationships even (Directions/pointers have been provided for students’ benefit. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.) read less