AUDIO STORIES

  Listen to a Story Interview from Victor, Idaho

 Reasons to Make Audio Stories 

• The equipment is relatively inexpensive and easy to use. You just need to practice a little and get comfortable with it.
• A microphone is less intrusive than a video camera. People can be more natural – more themselves n the company of a good interviewer or group.
• Audio forces the teller/catcher to be creative and pay attention to words, sound and language. 
• Audio is intimate. When you hear someone's voice on a podcast, it seems as if they're talking directly to you. Swedish researchers have found that audio creates more of a sense of co-presence than does text.
• In a one-on-one interview, the sharer is heard directly and feels valued; the listener gains insight and connects to the sharer in a new way.

                                                                                                                                            Adapted From NPR's Radio Diaries

 Talk-based Stories 

• Conversation cafe/Storycircles, both neighborhood or intergroup or city-wide with someone acting as recorder (via notes, audio recorder, video recorder)  or the group harvesting the values together. Damariscotta Community Conversations Flyer

         See Story Circles Page.

• Storybooths a la StoryCorps
• Interviews One-on-one or Many-on-One: Example from Going Coastal
• Personal Narrative podcast: Example from Coastal Stories
• Story Tours: Example from The Murmur Project or Artmobs

 Publishing

• Community Almanac: Example from Damariscotta
•  Website, Blogs and wikis
• CD for the town
• Radio:
• Example from Rural Voices Radio