Interview

Last night I spent a few hours round my Nan's house trying to get all the answers to my questions to build the foundations of my story. This is a task that sounded a lot easier than it was. When asking her questions the first time she would answer them perfectly naturally however she would tend to go off track or blend sections together throwing off the structure of my book. Because of this I would ask her to either repeat sections or say something like "thats great but if we can say that again without mentioning the other section as well" she would do exactly that but sound like she had eaten a robot! All of my second takes were more practical structure wise but sounded stale and rehearsed. I know that she has never had to do an interview before and she was nervous but when we got the the last section, we did almost six takes every time getting more stale to the point where she got annoyed and the last take sounded snappy and angry. All in all I can say that the interview didn't go as planned! However I have been cutting up what I have and trying to put it together so it makes sense (which is harder that you imagine!).

Here are the first two sections cut together to tell the story.