Gettin' my ducks in row, starting Battlestar Galactica interviews

What a lucky break. I got in touch with the founder of Galactica.tv, his name is Marcel. (Galacatica.tv is an online magazine dedicated to interviewing the cast and crew of the original and new BSG series.) He's been helping me with getting up to speed to conduct interviews. I have conducted interviews in the past, but that was like twelve years ago when I was going to college to become a Radio DJ or news reporter. huh, how my career path has changed. Anyhow, I dug out a lot of my old sound equipment I still had and was pleasantly surprised it all still worked. It's nothing fancy, mind you, cos it's an old tape recorder. Not a mini-cassette but a genuine cassette tape. Why shell out $80 on a digital recorder that will probably confuse the heck out of me -- I have trouble enough using an ipod -- when the ol' cassette recorder works brilliant. Not only that, but I can plug it into my computer and rip it straight to my hard disc. The only drawback I have found with the tape recorder is that the mic is so sensitive it picks up the sound of the cassette tape motor. Never noticed that motor noise back in the day. I guess I just put up with it. It's not a big deal anyhow as my sound editing software can cut out the background hiss.

So, where was I going with this. Oh yeah, interviewing... recording device, check!
list of people to interview, check! Just working down my list...

You never realize how much preparation goes into conducting a proper interview. When I did it back in college for the news and radio you just kind of got as many sound bites as you could about whatever was going on at the time. It was all very contrived and shallow. Conducting a genuine sit down interview where you really want to get into someone's head is a whole different color duck. You need to take their feelings into account, you are talking with a person not just fishing for 30 second sound bites. You need to arrange your questions so that you don't confuse the interviewee or yourself. There is a real purpose in the thought process of coming up with questions.

Quack...

Getting content up

Ok, so I've finally got some time to start adding content to the site. For now I am just adding the basic foundation of each page as a starting point. I have about 30+ pages worth of content to add, along with editing and formatting all of the associated photos. I've got my work cut out for me, that's for sure.

Check the Progress...