interview

My dad and I recorded the interview tonight for the Memorial Day show. I think it went really well! It sounded really spontaneous; I don't think people will know we started out with a script. My dad did a really good job of riffing on the script, adding extra thoughts off the cuff, and still staying basically on track. He's getting to be an old hand at this!

I listened to a few minutes and the audio sounded great. I'm going to listen to the whole thing tomorrow morning to make sure there aren't any problems, and then my dad will be free to do some computer maintenance he's been holding off on in case it messed up his Skype installation.

It's looking like I'm going to have to do this show in two parts. Because tonight's interview was just over an hour, and the Italian audio is also an hour, before translating and of course I'll have to add at least some audio to lead in and out and so forth. And so I'd have to make cuts to get down to a two-hour show with no music. And that would be a really dry show. I'd rather have two shows with music that will be easier to listen to, than try to cram everything into one marathon show of all dialogue. And this has the added benefit of giving me an extra week to do half of it.

I haven't decided yet whether to do all of my dad's interview in the first episode, and then all of Signor Bucca's interview, or to mix them together. I have to hear the translation first and decide how it best fits together.