90 mins
Production: Conducting Your Life Songs Interview
How do you conduct and record an interview?
How to Use This Lesson
Life Songs is an intergenerational media project organized into a four lesson unit plan. Over the course of the unit, students participate in a group singalong, identify and discuss their favorite songs, prepare interview questions about another person’s favorite songs, and conduct and record an interview with an adult who shares how certain songs shaped their life. The unit culminates in students presenting a completed version of their Life Songs Interview. Through Life Songs, students acquire beneficial skills and experience in media production while participating in social and emotional learning activities.
Essential Question
How do you conduct and record an interview?
Objectives
Know (knowledge):
- The concept of production and what the production process entails
- Strategies for leading a successful conversation with an interviewee
- The procedure to successfully document an interview using recording technology
- The technology of audio and video recordings
Mastery Objective:
- Students will be able to conduct and record an informative interview using recording technology.
Background
In this lesson, students will conduct and record an interview during the production phase of the Life Songs project.
As students turn to conducting their Life Songs Interview using the questions they drafted in Lesson 2, they identify and familiarize themselves with strategies to manage an effective interview session. In preparation for recording their interview, students decide which recording format they would to use to document their interview and have a pre-interview conversation with their interviewee. Finally, students practice using their chosen recording technology and then conduct and record their Life Songs Interview. By the end of the lesson, students will have recorded raw footage of their Life Songs Interview and in Lesson 4 they will transforming it into a final version.
This lesson is split into two parts, each of which may require a class period to cover.
Materials
- A device that records audio and/or video.