Interview Questions: Amit Foji

1. Person information
- Tell me about yourself, just like your background and life
- Ask these if he doesn’t cover them:
o How old are you?
o Do you go to college?
 If yes: what do/did you study?
 If no: do you work? What’s your job?
o Do you live in Asawarpur?
 If no: which village do you live in?
 Who do you live with? (like family)
 Have you always lived here?

2. Friends
- Tell me about your friends in the videos
o Are they the same age as you?
o Are they in college, or working? (if working, what do they do?)
o Are they all from Asawarpur? If not, which villages?
o How long have you guys known each other?
o Whose idea was it to make YouTube videos?
o Do people have jobs, like does one guy think of the idea, one guy film, etc?
- Do you know other people who make YouTube videos from around here?
- What do you and your friends do for fun?

3. YouTube
- Why did you decide to make YouTube videos?
- When did you start making videos? Are they all on your channel?
- Do you have a goal for your YouTube channel? Or plans for growing it?
- Why did you do comedy videos?
- Can you walk me through the process of making a video?
o Ask if he doesn’t cover:
 Do you plan the thing before, or do you improvise?
 Do you write a script?
 How do you film it? Phone, camera, etc
 How do you edit it? Computer, software etc
- How do you come up with ideas for your videos?
o Will you make more videos?
o What other topics will you make videos about? Will you continue with
Asawarpur comedy?
o Were these ones about things you guys talk about a lot?
o How do you feel about the topics of those videos
 Does this make you mad, is it just funny to you
 o Do you think people outside of Asawarpur can relate to these videos?
 Who do you make videos for? Do you know who your audience is, who
enjoys them
- Have people around here been watching your videos? Do they usually have internet
access?
- You got a lot of views on your last videos. How do you promote them?
o Why do you think those ones were popular?
- Do you watch a lot of YouTube videos?
o What kind of Youtubers?
o What kind of videos do you like? Style, genre etc. Mostly Indian ones?

4. Extra
- One video was about elections. Is there an election coming up?
o What are your thoughts on it?
 Do you know the candidates, the issues? Who do you think will win? Will
you vote?
- What do you think of Ashoka and the other colleges around here? Do they affect you
and your friends and family?