Can I Quote You on That? The Interview Process from Start to Finish

<p>Showing you both the process and product <em>Can I Quote You on That?</em> takes you through all the interviewing steps from contacting interviewees to completing interviews for publication. Along the way we'll look at how to ask for an interview developing and ordering lists of questions the importance of research and how to research without much notice conducting an interview without any notice time how to politely persist and get an interview from people who say yes but won't set a date why your spam folder may contain a golden ham technical considerations and proper equipment what I did when I lost all copies of an interview handling the laconic and the loquacious organization assembling a collection of interviews efficiently transcribing from audio or video editing an interview the pains and pleasures of release forms payment and working with editors.</p><p> </p><p>As we'll see interviewing is much more than just mechanically transcribing words to the page. <em>Can I Quote You on That? </em>guides you through the editing process of removing adding cleaning up clarifying and moving material within an interview by taking you through a first rough draft a second draft showing editing decisions with bracketed changes followed by explanatory notes and a third and final draft. Two complete examples fully demonstrate all three stages through separate interviews with Pete Von Sholly (<em>The Fantastic Four</em> <em>The Shawshank Redemption</em> and <em>The Green Mile</em>) and Martin Kove (<em>Death Race 2000</em> <em>The Karate Kid</em> and <em>Once Upon a Time. . . in Hollywood</em>).</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>William Nesbitt Ph.D. is Professor of English at Beacon College in Leesburg Florida. His articles creative writing reviews and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aji</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em>Manzano Mountain Review</em> <em>PopMatters</em> <em>The Rockpit</em> <em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em>Beatdom</em> <em>Route 7 Review</em> <em>Popular Culture Review</em> <em>The Southeast Review</em> and <em>The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology</em>. His books include <em>Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities at Beacon College: Lessons from the Inside</em> <em>Roger Corman's New World Pictures (1970-1983): An Oral History</em> (volumes one and two) and <em>Forsaken: The Making and Aftermath of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four</em>.</p>