Photo albums can also help trigger memories. In conducting and supervising these interviews over the years, I found it can be helpful (especially when interviewing older adults) to invite a close member of their family to be present.
I encourage you to listen to some of the “Faith Stories” interviews to better understand the possibilities simple audio recordings can offer, especially “amateur” recordings like these which are simple yet powerful for the reasons noted above. This has tremendous value to the family and friends they left behind, and can be inspirational to anyone connected to the Internet who has the link to their recordings. They can no longer share about their lives as followers of Jesus in person, but these audio recordings of their memories live on. Some of those interviewed have since passed away.
Christian Audio and Podcast ExamplesĪs with other kinds of media projects, one of the best ways to understand the power and beneficial potential of audio recordings for “Christian digital storytelling” is to listen to some examples. These and other family oral history interview media files are linked from our Family Learning Blog Oral History page. After the author’s mother died of brain cancer in December 2022, audio interviews saved and preserved via the Stor圜orps website as well as YouTube. Video file sizes can be large, especially for longer recordings, which can present challenges in uploading and sharing.įamily oral history interviews can become priceless media recordings preserving the voice, personality, and ideas of a loved one who has passed away and gone to be with our Lord.Some people feel less intimidated speaking into an audio recorder rather than a video camera.