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bewarethephantomoftheopera · 7 years ago

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A Job Interview Is Not A Test Of Your Knowledge But Your Ability To Use It At The Right Time

Part of the assessed work for my course is a Media Interview on one the four areas of the licensing act; Prevention of Public Nuisance, Public Safety, Prevention of Crime & Disorder and Protection of Children from Harm each section is linked to a specific scenario regarding an event. For each event we are the organiser/promoter who is being interviewed to explain the outcome or cause of each scenario.

An element of the this was learning how to approach an interview and media training, one way we were introduced to the methods of a media interview was through an online guide which broke down an interview answer and the process.

Research

For each scenario I tried to link the scenario to a relevant case study which has taken place during the entertainment industry. To enhance the research, we did we were given two of the four questions we were to be asked during the interview.

Prevention of Public Nuisance

The scenario for Prevention of Public Nuisance made me think of when Justin Bieber came on stage two hours late in 2013. I researched whether the people who attended were able to get a refund and what the venue’s way of resolving the issue was, i.e. contacting London Transport to delay the last tube and hiring a boat to transport fans going alternative routes, tweeted alerting fans of delay.

When researching this I was surprised to find out that audience members are unable to receive a refund if the artist arrives late or performs at alternative time than advertised as the artist has fulfilled part of the agreement of turning up.

Public Safety

I couldn’t think of a current case study that I could link to this scenario, so to research the health and safety in relation to a food festival I looked at one of the biggest current festivals standards and systems.

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/traders/

On the Glastonbury website they clearly state what documentation they require from each trader before they are guaranteed a position on the site. Once producing this documentation, they will have a pitch at the festival, however when on site the festival follows a RAG System which is explained above; I like the idea of this system as it means the festival are constantly checking on their traders, assuring customers that the organisers are aware of what each traders’ standards are.

Prevention of Crime & Disorder

This scenario is one of the most common for nightclub in the sense that most people expect it from a venue even if it isn’t happening.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476514/Section_53A-C_Licensing_Act_2003_Summary_Review_Guidance.pdf

For this I investigated the Licensing Act 2003 for sections which maybe violated regarding drug use at a venue. From this I found that the main area of concern for a venue owner is by violating Section 53a (association with serious crime and disorder) the local authorities will revoke the venue’s license. Whilst looking into this I also found an organisation which advises venues on issues regarding drug use within venues. This organisation was called Safe Nightlife, they installed drug amnesty boxes into venues who reach out to them for help and advise them on which direction to go to reduce the crime.

http://newip.safernightlife.org/pdfs/digital_library/uk_safer_nightlife_guideline.pdf

Prevention of Children from Harm

This scenario reminded me a lot of Adele at the Brits in 2012, due to this I decided to investigate the outcome and the consequences in which it held.

From this research I found out that the may concern by the media is what caused Adele’s outbreak and whether she was going to apologise; which in this case is personally your choice.

I also decided to investigate specific areas of legislation which is linked to swearing where minors are present, from this I discovered Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, explained above.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/5

Interview

For the interview I was presented with Drug Dealing at a Venue (Prevention of Crime & Disorder), one which I was hoping to get, overall, I didn’t mind either of the four-push comes to shove, I was however relieved I didn’t get Protection of Children from Harm.

During the interview I manage to mention the highlight Section 53a of the Licensing Act 2003 and managed to explain what Safe Nightlife do to help venues struggling from issues regarding crime. I feel like I approached the interview with confidence and managed to follow the media technique of building a bridge to the answer which you want the public to hear, I feel that doing drama the majority of my life has helped to enhance my skill of covering up nerves vocally and physically, and the practise of improv helped me in regards to building the bridge within the answer. I managed to mention all the points in which I had researched and apologise to the locals who had to witness the drug use which although many may not have included I wished to reiterate the point to show a sign of sincerity in what I was saying.

If I was to the interview the interview again I feel as if I spoke a little too quick when answering the questions as I was trying to get in all my points, and my answers started to be a little less in depth towards the end as I had used best of my research towards the start. I also feel as if I said ‘like’ little too much as I was trying to process the answer which I was giving, which to me also makes me feel very unprofessional, and is a great bug bare to me when I hear myself say it. It is something I need to work on, and one way to this maybe to practise interviews aloud with someone who highlights when I say it. As I have not seen the footage I’m not sure if I did or not fidget, for example twiddle my fingers or look off into the distance, but if so once again I feel an aloud rehearsal would resolve this.

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motherfuckingnazgul · 5 years ago

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@markwatnae okay so it’s possible i’m looking at the wrong stuff because this isn’t my field and also idk what your prof considers “scholarly” and if you’ve already tried all the usual places--google scholar, jstor, wikipedia citations--but here’s some stuff i dug up, under a cut just for neatness:

most of this stuff you’ll have to look and see if the library has the full text or if you have database access, sorry!

this paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Medical-examiner-and-coroner-systems%3A-history-and-Hanzlick-Combs/08fe1c6acf7067329e76af2860f38f6fe63c27ff which also has a goodly list of citations; there might be references to historical cases in some of these since a lot of ‘em are about the history of the coroner system

this relatively recent (uh, by my standards, but i’m in classics so) book on the history of american death investigation: https://books.google.ca/books?id=s9ileFqUyM0C&source=gbs_navlinks_s (your library might have a copy?)

this article, slightly older, on death certification: https://journals.lww.com/amjforensicmedicine/Abstract/1997/09000/Mind_Your_Manners__Part_I__History_of_Death.1.aspx

this article, also older: https://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/JFS13448J.htm

this article, not behind a paywall fortunately: https://www.intechopen.com/books/forensic-medicine-from-old-problems-to-new-challenges/death-scene-investigation-from-the-viewpoint-of-forensic-medicine-expert

these are pretty much all more general things talking about the history of death investigation or the specifics of a (semi-)current state of legal affairs re: guidelines for death investigation; however, i think it’s reasonable for you to use this stuff as the scholarly backing for your discussion of a death investigation that was documented in the news or whatever, if you can find that. on that particular score i’m afraid to say that i didn’t find much :/

i have no idea if any of this stuff is useful to you but my more general tips are: use google scholar with impunity (general search terms can be okay if you make good use of quotation marks, etc.), follow the trail of citations toward stuff more specifically related, and don’t hesitate to just go find some shit on libgen if the library doesn’t have it, lmao

I have a paper due tomorrow but I don’t know how to find sources for it and I fucked up and didn’t email my professor about it like I had planned to on Wednesday so now I’m screwed

It’s worth 100 points. If I don’t do it, I’ll go from a 93 to a 73.

I can obviously turn it in late but I still don’t know how to write it and would my professor even be willing to help me after the papers already late?

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