The second theme was more about the event itself and how HCA City Games performed, judging by the analysis that were made outside and inside her department. The interviewee started with pointing some of the initial objectives, regarding the participant numbers and the idea that the event will expand to other cities on Funen, so it could represents all the island.
Failing to perform on this 2 main points led, in her opinion, to the decision of stopping all the financial and logistic help, …show more content…
She basically answered to my next questions if the municipality is involved in any way at the new, smaller scale event.
In the end, I left some parts of the discussions and answers outside the three main categories, as they didn’t match in those groups or were introductory conversation or asking for of documentation or that could be useful for my final thesis, to complete or back up the data from the interviews.
The interviewees’ last remark was that she doesn’t believe that the event was a disaster and the organizers did their best, but there are many good events that have better perspectives that HCA City Games.
I can shortly draw some sub conclusions and write some comments around the interview with Dorte Ankjaer Nielsen. First of them is that she was very open and eager to arrange the interview and share her experiences and knowledge with me, fact that could also be read on the social cues, language, mimics, body language, though they were not included in my research. Furthermore, she offered me all the documents she had in her department, related to HCA City …show more content…
That email also included the interview guide with the main themes, HCA City Games’ creation, mission, vision, performances and last but not least the reasons for abandoning the event. I chose for this interview a closed structure, which implies clear questions and a limited room for variation.27 The advantages this type of interview is bringing is the focus on the topic and is easier to decode and understand and is easier to avoid that the interviewee is jumping from the themes that were included in the interview