The Cojack Interview

On a Thursday not long ago we were asked to interview two members of the BSU band Cojack. We were asked to prepare questions to pose to them in the hope they would make good interviewees and not just answer with a yes or a no. These questions came in many forms, some like "where are you from originally?" through to "what’s your favourite pie?”. The pie question went on to become the question to cause one member to think long and hard about the answer, which if you can hear if you listen to the interview edit.

Ciaren, Matt and I managed to get both members (Rob and Matt) of the band for our interview which I think was a real bonus to our interview as it seemed to make them more relaxed and chatty. This was also a downfall as our interview ran to about eighteen minutes in end which led to a lot of editing on our behalf. With my edit I cut out a lot of the later questions, trying to focus more on a theme of 'This is Cojack'. I went more for questions that gave them a chance to explain how the band formed and also went on to help them promote upcoming gigs, before ending the questions with the infamous 'pie' question. When adding the music I decided to use the shortest of the three tracks as the intro and background music, as this was about 2 minutes long I decided to use the longest track as the second part of the background. This could help to give people an idea of what other songs sound like as they also introduce a song at the end of the interview.

In this I could have gone about it differently, taken later questions where they had relaxed more giving a more chatty feeling, but I feel it was quite chatty anyway. I could have had them introduce the song and at intervals have them answering a few questions about the band and have finished with their next gig dates.