Roots with Wings, a Floyd County Place-Based Education Project:: Intergenerational Connections

Floyd Story Center

Since 1998, a community oral history collection partnership of the Old Church Gallery, Ltd., Radford University’s Center for Social and Cultural Research, Honors Program, Scholar-Citizen Initiative, Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, and Floyd County High School. Our archives now hold over 100 interviews.

In our Roots with Wings project, college mentors, high school staff, and community volunteers meet weekly during the school year to teach the discipline of oral history collection.


Students learn ethical, methodologically sound interview techniques, practice and complete several interviews, transcribe the audiotapes, create searchable content logs, archive interviewee resources and period photographs, learn the technology of audio and video recording, research historical backgrounds, acquire proficiency in iMovie and storytelling, and finally extract a theme from an hour long interview to create a seven minute movie production.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Improving Interview Techniques

Practice makes Perfect

 


Thursday, March 10th.  After reviewing footage from previous practice interviews, the class split into two teams for each of the two separate recording set-ups.  Mr. Worley assigned the roles: interviewer, videographer, audio recording technician, PR and hospitality, second camera, director, and candid video camera.  Starting from scratch, the students assembled the recording components with help from the project manual.  It seems to become easier each time, allowing refinements toward getting the best interview possible.  We're all looking forward to the big day in two weeks!
blogpost:  Kathleen Ingoldsby 
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