Renaissance West Midlands Training

Aims: Devising a strategy for recording opinion and stories from your local community to complement and contrast with your collections can be a difficult process. This course will help you to consider the issues and will guide you through the stages of making a recording such as:

• Devising an action plan to contact interviewees.

• Considering the dos and don'ts for good oral history questions.

• Developing a good interviewing technique.

• Hands on interviewing practice; capturing audio on solid state recorders.

• Hands on practice at editing your audio.

• Tips on acquiring equipment and software to suit your budget and needs.

• Data protection, consent forms and licensing.

Who should attend? Anyone involved in creating a recording or archive of local opinion and experience.

Trainer: Herbert Media

 

To book a place

Please download, complete and return the application form to:

rafeela_akhtar@birmingham.gov.uk