Alternatives to “How Do You Feel?”
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
National Public Radio’s Audie Cornish, throws out some alternatives to the usual “How Do you Feel?” when you’re interviewing your subjects.
- What happened?
- What happens next?
- What did you do?
- What do you make of this?
- How do you explain what has happened to other people?
- When it first happened, what did you think — and what do you think now?
- What surprised you about how others reacted?
- What are you worried about?
- What are you telling your children/family?
- What does this make you think about your own community?
- Why do you still live here?
Also helpful is a pdf of how to record and work with active sound. It closes with the 10 commandments of recording audio.
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Tags: audio, journalism, Uncategorized
