On December 8th, Dave Schwartz from Kare11 visited us to share his vast knowledge of storytelling and interviewing. Although Dave mostly broadcasts about sports, he occasionally does a human interest story, so he had a broad understanding of the field. Instead of only teaching us about storytelling and interviewing, Dave created an activity to get our entire class involved in a real-life situation of interviewing our classmate and sharing their story similar to what Dave does on Kare11. Before he let us pair up and interview each other, he told us his key advice to interviewing. He told us to first, do our research on our subject, then let the rest flow. Our interview should be a glorified conversation in which we use our questions as guides, but we should not be afraid of tangents. Storytelling, he later told us, is something with a beginning, middle, and end that evokes emotion and paints a picture.
Following his lesson on storytelling and interviewing, he allowed us to choose our partners and interview each other. After interviewing our partner, we wrote a human interest story on our partner and shared it with the class, allowing us to learn more about our classmates.
December 8
Dave Schwartz from Kare11 came over to visit with VANTAGE students about storytelling and interviewing. Students interviewed each other and shared the story of their classmates to the Digital Journalism group.
