Emails arranging expert interviews

Emails arranging expert interviews

The following screenshots include both our successful attempts to gain expert interviews and some problems we had when making arrangements for interview dates meaning we could not arrange interviews with certain individuals.

A lot of our communications with companies we were hoping to interview were also done over the phone for example an interview we managed to get with a bartender at 'pitcher and piano'

Arranging interview : Biologist Amy Reiner We decided to try and arrange an email with Amy Reiner because she works at the college we thought it would be easier to arrange filming time with her as we have similar timetables and the same lunch breaks. Amy is a biology teacher so we knew she would know a great deal of informative information on how alcohol effects the body but as she is also a teacher she works closely with students and has a bond with students meaning she may know how it also effects them mentally/ personally and the pressures they face.

We managed to secure a date and time with Amy for the interview that went ahead on the 12th October.

Arranging interview : Nick Waring

We messaged Nick through Tyber as we wanted him to be an expert in our documentary. We gave him a list of questions and times we were available to film. We decided to put all of this information in one email as previously when we tried to email other interviewees we wasted time emailing them the questions before we had even confirmed a filming day and ended up not being available to meet them.

We don’t have reply back from Nick as we went to see him that day also and managed film the interview later on that day with him.

Arranging Interview- Mike Duggan(Paramedic)

In the end we could not organize an interview with Mike due to scheduling issues we were never free at the same time due to his busy work schedule and the fact that because we were using college equipment we could only had access to it at certain times and could not book it out after 4.00 which is the only time Mike was available.

Unsuccessful Arrangements Arranging Interview- The Police

Arranging Interview- Julie Maitland After receiving the message from Julie confirming she would be willing to do the interview we went down to her office to arrange a date however she was not available at any point during the weeks we would be filming.

We struggled at first on how to get in contact with the police as there was not a clear number in which we needed to contact for press reasons we only came across the 999 emergency number. However we eventually found the communication email for West Midlands police however they said they were not willing to participate due to other more important commitments.

Unsuccessful Arrangements

We did not receive responses back from certain companies, the following screenshot shows the email we sent out to addictionhelper. We wanted this particular company to be a part of documentary as an example of help in place for young binge drinkers. However we did not here anything back from them.