We switched the original milestone #1  to quell concerns of family members and their stories being open to the public. They wanted their content access limited to just the family and friends they chose.

I then decided things would flow better to have some tips and tricks on the ‘How To” front for acquiring the content and developing journalistic skills. This will be the focus of this sprint.

The next milestone will combine a sample grandparent interview and the curating and collecting of supporting material for a story.

We discussed the format for a long-form podcast to capture what’s beneficial to know about doing one of these family interviews.

I first needed to focus on recalling a story in my life that would be engaging and maybe define a set of criteria around what stories work.

We came up with the idea that when you go out and meet up with a willing participant, you could start with a casual conversation pulling from them an inventory of their life-changing stories. Keep track, of course, and then you could ask them to pick one they felt would work for a future interview.

We thought it would benefit them to have some time to reflect on the events around that story, and for you as the interviewer to dream up questions to probe with.

We discussed how the personality test would come into our podcast. It really boils down to identifying your differences and following the suggestions in the relationship report. It was also evident they could play a role in setting the environment for where you have the interview, and in using the incites of the test, you could make things as comfortable as possible.

I prepared a snippet of one such relationship report and added it to the interviewer’s training section.

For our actual recording things were too busy in the house so we opted to do it outside. All about being flexible. Tarah indicated the backdrop for the primary camera angle should be plain and neutral. Then during editing, you could pop in a picture or a note. We did experience issues with sound quality with the neighborhood’s ambient noise. Issues of being outside, fewer things you can control. In the end, we pulled together about a 40-minute podcast and hosted it on the site in raw format.

For the next sprint, we will go through the editing steps of this recording and provide a comparison.