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