Alternatives to "How Do You Feel?"

National Public Radio’s Audie Cornish, throws out some alternatives to the usual “How Do you Feel?” when you’re interviewing your subjects.

• What happened?

• What happens next?

• What did you do?

• What do you make of this?

• How do you explain what has happened to other people?

• When it first happened, what did you think — and what do you think now?

• What surprised you about how others reacted?

• What are you worried about?

• What are you telling your children/family?

• What does this make you think about your own community?

• Why do you still live here?

Also helpful is a pdf of how to record and work with active sound. It closes with the 10 commandments of recording audio.