Open questions are questions that result in having a long answer. If the interviewer was to ask the interviewee an open question then the interviewee would respond with a longer answer than a closed question. Instead of the interview being controlled by the interviewer like closed questions are when asking an open question the control is passed over to the interviewee as they will respond in a way where they reflect on the question and tell the interviewer their thoughts and feelings on the question being asked. the positives of having open question is that the interviewee can give up juicy information that the interviewer has not anticipated therefore it entertains the audience a lot more whereas the negatives of using open questions as that it can run the interview over as there is no time limit therefore unlike closed questions the interviewer is in less control of the interview itself.
Really good interviews will have a nice combination of both open and closed questions to give the audience a range of different answers.
As you can see Jonathan Ross has a combination of open and closed questions which makes the interview interesting for the audience and you can see that he also uses them in different situations like as ice breakers and to keep control of the interview yet uses the open questions to get in depth answers.
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