Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
To interview
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: To interview
Overview
“Interviewing is an art. I will give you some tricks and some guidelines to interview people who can give you a lot of information about the chosen photograph.”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: To interview, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events. Explore fiction within reality and create your own stories from the news, photos, and real events.
Partial transcription of the video
“To interview In this lesson I will teach you how to approach an interview. Interviewing is an art. there are people who do it wonderfully well. I was a journalist for 20 years and I think I'm not very good at it. I am ashamed, sometimes I feel embarrassed to ask, but everything is learned. Interviewing is important because we will listen to voices of expert people or people who were present at the time the photo was taken. So we can start by listing of the people you think you could interview. For example, I see my photo and the first one I must locate is the photographer. How do I locate i...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
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Category
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Areas
Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Lola Larra
A course by Lola Larra
Lola Larra was born in Santiago, Chile and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After studying arts at the Andrés Bello Catholic University and then following a rock band across Latin America, she moved to Madrid where she worked for many years as a journalist. She was a writer and correspondent for a series of newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stone, Cinemanía, Colors, Vogue, Página 12, and El País.
14 years later, she returned to Chile, where she published Al sur de la Alameda, an illustrated novel inspired by Chile's 2006 student revolution. It has since been translated into various languages and won several awards. After extensive research, she later published Sprinters, a journalistic novel based on the Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) case. She also currently works at her own publishing house, Ekaré Sur which publishes illustrated stories for children and young adults.
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