The initial talk about the interview made me feel a bit worried as I’m not overly confident in my interviewing technique. I find I can come off a bit stunted just because of nerves, something that I always struggle with. I was never a great public speaker and I can become very inarticulate when I get nervous.

I have had a listen to RRR and I was really hoping that it would spark some sort of inspiration for a interview topic, but unfortunately it didn’t quite happen for me. I enjoyed listening to the station and getting a feel of what goes to air, however, I listened to the Breakfasters and there was a lot of political segments and interviews. I think that was because the budget had just been released. So I was struggling to come up with a suitable topic and interviewee for my own interview.

The ideas I brought up in class were:

1. Recent thoughts about volunteering overseas as a few articles have come up presenting organisations that send people overseas to volunteer in developing communities as somewhat of a scam. The articles look at how, especially in orphanages, having volunteers going over all the time creates a very unstable environment. This doesn’t necessarily do the kids any good at all with people coming and going regularly and can be utilised as a bit of a opportunity for travellers. The major problem I had with this idea is who I could interview, I highly doubt that going directly to a organisation such as this would work.

2. The question of where money goes to when people donate to charities.  A high risk of donating to some charities is that only a small percentage of the money goes to the actual cause the rest gets lost in transactions and admin costs. Once again, the question of who to interview created a struggle.

3. My final idea was about the impact that modern technology is having on eating out. Restaurants have been complaining that with the surge in people wanting to post up pictures of their food or coffee on Instragram or Facebook it is taking a much longer time to serve customers. By the time people check in on Facebook to where they are and who they are with (and reply to any text messages), it’s at least 5 minutes before they get around talking to who they’ve come with and then even longer to look at the menu. Then once the food as arrived they take photos and post that up to Instragram – all while the food is getting cold, meaning they are then less satisfied with their meal and the turn around in busy restaurants is much longer.

The final idea seemed to spark the most amount of interest and Bec suggested a friend of hers that was the face of the Stop Phubbing Campaign so I decided to land on that.