How the Five-Act Structure Can Improve Your Interviews
Environmental Writing Studio Workshop with Angela Antle
25.06.2025 12:00 – 14:00
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
with Landhaus Writer-in-Residence Angela Antle
Interviewing research subjects can often feel extractive or unwieldy. You might wonder if you’re asking the right questions in the right order, or why some subjects clam up and others share their experiences generously. This workshop will help you become a better interviewer.
Borrowing from the five-act narrative structure and drawing on three decades of asking questions for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the workshop’s instructor Angela Antle will help you develop skills to arrive at your interviews prepared and relaxed, and to get the most out of conversations with subjects. Come with a project to the workshop or an idea of interviews you would like to do (or redo) to get the most out of the workshop.
Angela will share some journalists’ secrets, and participants will discuss different types of interviews and questions, focus statements, q-line development—mapping which questions should come first, and which might be avoided. The workshop will discuss pitfalls and personal experiences—an informal gathering to learn from each other and become better interviewers.
This is an in-house RCC workshop (for RCC affiliates only).
Angela Antle is the 2025 Landhaus Writer-in-Residence, a multidisciplinary artist, documentary-maker, interdisciplinary PhD candidate (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions.
This is an Environmental Writing Studio event. To find out more about the RCC’s writing studio, please go to this tab.