Structering - Confidence building

Before you start asking questions about the topic that you are planning to question your interviewee on, to structure your interview well you would need to do confidence building. This is where you help the interviewee get some confidence so that when you do ask your questions they will respond with confidence and give you nice long detailed answers. A good way to build up someones confidence is compliment the person for instance on the work they have done or what they have achieved.

This is a very good example of confidence building as you can see at 1:40 you can see that the interviewer(Ellen) is praising her on how good the movie is and also talking about Oscars slightly before hand. This therefore makes Mila Kunis feel good about herself and gives her this confidence. It also relaxes her and by the interviewer using eye contact it puts the interviewee into this relaxed state and therefore makes them gain this confidence.

Also you can see at the beginning that Ellen introduces the whole interview which shows a good example of that and you can see how she engages the audience in this way and shows a clip of the movie so we know what the interview is going to be talking about.