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Was it easy to do the first article/interview people?
For this first assignment, we chose to write on the preparations made by the Year 4s for the RV carnival, who were in-charge of food stalls. It was quite accessible for us as we are part of the Year 4s ourselves, and are directly involved. However, it was not all that smooth-sailing during the interviewing. Some of our classmates were not so outspoken and refused to accept our interviews at first. We managed to get results when we convinced them that their identities would not be revealed publicly.

Was it practical to interview? How did you select those to be interviewed?
It was rather practical to be conducting interviews because we would not know much about what went on behind-the-scenes if we did not go around asking people for their opinions. We decided on a variety of people to be interviewed such as:

1) The heads of each class’s carnival committee
2) Students in-charge of the decorations
3) Those who were responsible for supplying the food ingredients/packaging
4) And lastly, people who were supposed to man the booth during the event itself.

Our reason for choosing a variety was because we wanted to thoroughly investigate the preparations in specific areas, not just generally.

Did you dare to interview strangers?
(I don’t know what to say :x)

Any difficulties encountered during the writing of the first article?
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Optional: (can choose whether we want to answer)
How the carnival could have been better?
How the article could have been better?
Suggest solutions for all the problems you’ve encountered.
How reliable are the interviewee’s answers?