Interview Process

This post documents the process I went through to achieve the finished interview video.

Interviewee: My Grandad

My initial plan was to interview my Grandad about his experiences being a conscientious objector during the war. Then as I thought about him more and more I realised (read: remembered) how much he treasured his family; children and grandchildren. So after coming up with some questions I changed the topic to his Grandchildren: (A few questions below)

So, I went around to my Grandparents house to have dinner with them and interview Grandad. The plan I had for this was to set my phone up and interview Grandad over dinner, in the end the idea was to show passing of time through the amount of food that was on Grandad's plate. The interview went well and I learnt alot more about Grandad than I had before (due to many anecdotes and digressions).

After the interview I checked my phone and the stupid app had stopped filming due to some unkown 'interuption'.

:(

So we scheduled another interview (morning tea the next day) and after hearing Grandad's side stories I decided to change the topic to one of his adventures as a mid teenager. He went on a bike tour of the south island during the second World War and he still had photos of his trip which I could show as well.

Some are below:

So we got started on the interview and this lasted almost 45 minutes (but felt nowhere near that). I checked my phone this time, and again it was interupted!

So I had learnt my lesson this time, I sat so I could see the back of the phone and regularly checked up on it. In the end I got plenty of interesting stories recorded, and chose the one that would fit into the time given and it still went over time.  :)