Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
The Pre-interview
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle , Writer, Editor, and DJ
About the video: The Pre-interview
Overview
“In this lesson, I'm going to give you some tips to make your pre-interview as successful as possible. It is a key step in the process.”
In this video lesson Ana Cecilia Calle addresses the topic: The Pre-interview, which is part of the Domestika online course: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound. Learn to develop, produce, and edit a memorable, character-driven audio story to share with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“the pre-interview In this lesson I will give you a series of tips to make your pre-interview as successful as possible. A pre-interview is the meeting that one has with his character or interviewee prior to recording your interview. There you will have to introduce yourself, tell the person why you are interested in her or him and try to find a place and time for your recording. Do not think that all journalists and all the people who work with audio in audiovisual media we are extroverts. On the contrary, there are people like me who are actually quite shy. So there are a number of resourc...”
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Course summary for: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
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Category
Music & Audio, Writing -
Areas
Audio, Communication, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Podcasting, Script

Ana Cecilia Calle
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle
Ana Cecilia is a writer, editor, and DJ who loves telling stories about sound, the body, and pop culture. In 2020, she edited the children's book El Bajo Alberti, illustrated by Dipacho, in Colombia and Chile. She has also published her own work in Colombian magazines like Arcadia, El Malpensante, and Diners, and the Rio Grande Review of Poetry in the US.
She has participated in audio festivals such as Festival Sur Aural in Bolivia and Festival En Tiempo Real in Colombia. She often DJs under the name LaPhDj in the Chulita Vinyl Club collective. Her audio documentary [i]From the Center Out[i], coproduced by Laura Marina Boria, was selected to participate in the 2022 edition of the radio art festival Radiophrenia in Scotland.
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