How
has your neighborhood changed, and what influence have these changes had on the
people in your neighborhood and your community?
STEP ONE: CHOOSE EITHER INTERVIEW OPTION ONE OR TWO:
INTERVIEW
OPTION ONE: One Person Interview and
portrait
Choose someone you know fairly well, that you are pretty
confident can talk to you about your neighborhood’s changes, and how those
changes have influenced their life and the life of the community. The longer this person has been in the
neighborhood, the better (For example, Ezra has lived in Park Slope for 30
years). This person can be a relative, a
family friend, the owner of the local corner store, the pastor of a local
church, or someone else you think will have good community stories. While you are talking to that person DO YOUR
RESEARCH so that your portrait of that person shows who they are, (ala Ruddy Roye’s examples).
AFTER THE INTERVIEW:
Choose FIVE – SEVEN quotes you feel can answer the
questions: How has your neighborhood changed, and what influence have these
changes had on the person you interviewed and the community? You will transcribe those quotes and type
them into a document with a specific format, heading, and including a summary
of your interview that describes the interview, its information and
implications, including 2 – 3 questions that were raised by this research. Upload the portrait to Flickr, and email it
to Mr. Salak: msalak15@gmail.com, who
will print out an 8” x 10” image of the person for you.
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INTERVIEW
OPTION TWO: Several Person, Community
Interview and portraits
Write/choose some questions that you would like to ask a
number of people in the neighborhood.
Hit the street with your questions, a clipboard, a writing utensil, and
your camera. Stop people on the street,
or go into stores and restaurants to see if they will agree to answer your
questions and to be photographed. DO
YOUR RESEARCH so that your portraits of each person tell a story of who they
are (ala Ruddy Roye’s examples).
AFTER THE INTERVIEW:
You will choose FIVE people that you
interviewed and choose 1 – 2 quotes from each person that you feel can answer
the questions: How has the community changed, and what influence have these changes
had on the people in the community and the community itself? You will
transcribe their quotes and type them up into a document with a specific
format, heading, and including a summary of your interviews: Who you
interviewed, when you did the interviews, what the interviews were about, what
you learned about changes in the community, and including 2 - 3 questions that
were raised by this research. Upload your images to Flickr and email them to
Mr. Salak: msalak15@gmail.com, who
will print out 5 3” x 5” portraits for you, and you will match the images to
the quotes.
_____I
choose Interview Option One_____I choose Interview Option Two
INTERVIEW
OPTION ONE STEP-BY-STEP
Part
One: Due Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Step One was to choose this as your option.
STEP TWO: Thinking about who you can interview
Think about three people in your community that you could
possibly interview. REMEMBER: The longer they have lived in the community
the better (Ezra has lived in Park Slope for 30 years).
Write these potential interviewees names here:
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Rank them in order of who you think would make the best
interview. Put a #1 by who is your first
choice, a #2 by your second choice, and a #3 by your third choice.
STEP THREE: Interview bio
Sketch out the details of your #1 choice’s life in the
template below:
Person’s name: ____________________________________
Age (or approximate age): ____________________________
Where they were born: ______________________________
How long he/she has lived in your neighborhood:
_____________________
What that person does or used to do for a living:_______________________
This person will make a good interviewee for this project
because: Answer below:
STEP FOUR: Generating Questions
Review the list of questions below. Put a check mark by any you might want to
use. Fill in the blanks at the bottom
with questions of your own.
REMEMBER: You want to ask
open-ended questions that don’t lead the interviewee to answer a particular
way. Guaranteed: You will also think of questions as you go.
WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
WHEN DID YOU MOVE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO NYC/THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?
CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS LIKE WHEN YOU
ARRIVED?
CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS LIKE WHEN YOU
WERE GROWING UP?
ARE THERE ANY MEMORABLE MOMENTS FROM THAT TIME?
HAS THE COMMUNITY CHANGED OVER THE YEARS? HOW SO?
WHEN DID YOU BEGIN TO NOTICE THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS
CHANGING?
WHEN DID THE NEIGHBORHOOD FIRST BEGIN TO CHANGE?
WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST CHANGE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD?
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN
HAPPENING/HAVE HAPPENED?
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU MISS FROM HOW IT USED TO BE?
HAS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY CHANGED OVER THE
YEARS?
ARE THERE ANY MEMORABLE CHARACTERS FROM BACK IN THE DAYS?
ANYTHING YOU USED TO DO THAT PEOPLE DON’T DO IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD ANY MORE?
Make up
your own questions here (Think about your interviewee, what might you want to
ask him or her based on what you know about him/her):
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
STEP FIVE: Make a date to interview your person
Contact your interviewee and find a time to sit down with
him or her.
STEP SIX: Record your
interview
Make sure you have your recording device, a notebook and
pen, a camera, and your list of questions.
REMEMBER: Do not let your
interview go over 20 minutes. You
will be surprised at how much information you can get in that time. REMEMBER:
Take your interviewees portrait before you leave.
STEP SEVEN: Reviewing
your interview
Listen to your interview and make note of interesting points
in the interview and jot notes on topics of interest.
ONCE YOU
HAVE COMPLETED THESE STEPS YOU WILL BEGIN WORK ON PART TWO: TRANSCRIBING YOUR
INTERVIEW AND PUTTING THE PROJECT TOGETHER
