Interview craft, storytelling insights, and behind-the-scenes from the team building StorySeeker.
A recording nobody can prove permission for is a recording nobody will use. Here is what an oral history consent form has to settle, the three things most of them leave out, and a free two-page template to print.
Five sensory interview techniques that pull your subject out of the polished summary and back into the moment, so you capture footage that actually holds an audience.
During a 25-minute discovery call, six follow-up questions surfaced in real time that sounded like a seasoned producer whispering. Here's what made them work.
Why I built StorySeeker's Oral History mode, told through my grandfather's story and the questions I wish I'd known how to ask.
A documentary filmmaker walks through the full interview workflow (preparation, live coaching, and post-interview analysis) for a real corporate film production.
There's a moment every interviewer dreads, and it never happens during the interview. It happens later, in the edit suite, when you realize the real story was right there and you moved on.