Friday, October 11, 2013

Interviews and Unschooling

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Yesterday, Mum and I made a movie together. We settled down in the living room and set up out tripod, a dining room chair with a pile of out-of-date encyclopedias sitting on. I sat in one of the big armchairs. Mum set up the camera on the 'tripod'. Today Mum would be interviewing me about being unschooled and about studying at university.

I glanced at the list of questions I had sitting in my lap. We discussed what I was going to say. Was this a good idea? It felt a lot like public speaking, which scares me. I'd much rather sing to a crowd than speak to them. Taking a deep breath, I waited for Mum to start filming. The little red light appeared on the camera. I smiled at my non-existent audience and began to speak.

Once I got going, it wasn't too scary after all. Every so often we stopped the camera, discussed what I was going to say in the next segment. Mum took a rest from holding onto the camera.And then we carried on. I talked for what seemed to be ages before we finally got through all the questions and finished filming.

Then Mum took the video to her room, downloaded it onto her computer and started editing it into something acceptable for other people to see. As I passed her room occasionally, I caught snatches of my own voice, babbling on about one thing or another, and winced. There is nothing so humbling as hearing your own voice. It didn't take long for Mum to have the movie finished though.

"Do you want to see it?" Mum asked me.

I shook my head at once. "No thanks. I don't like listening to myself talk."

But even though I didn't watch it, other family members told me that it was good. It seemed that me sitting in front of a camera and attempting to talk about my experiences unschooling and now studying at university had ended up with a fairly good video. Already we're thinking about the next movie. Now that I've been interviewed once, I wouldn't mind too much doing it again. My brothers and sisters might have a turn too. Who knows what we might come up with next?

If you're interested in hearing what it was like to be unschooled, and what it's like to study university over the internet, then please check out my interview. You can find it here: Imogen Talks about Unschooling and University

10 comments:

  1. Cheers on your success. In that sort of situation I would just choke up and squeak. :) It's good to see you posting again.

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    1. Thanks JT. I'm sorry I didn't answer this earlier. I meant to be so consistent in my posting, but I got sucked into getting ready for NaNoWriMo instead and blogging disappeared.

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  2. What a fun idea. And if you're good at it, who knows where that might lead.

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    1. Who knows? Maybe I should practice talking in front of a camera more so that I get used to it. Thanks for your comment Alex.

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  3. Hi there! Just popping in to say how much we're enjoying having your blog on our high school homeschool blogroll at LetsHomeschoolHighschool.com. I hope it's sent some great new traffic your way. I wondered if you could help us get out the word about LHSHS on your blog too? We have a dedicated button on our About Us page: http://letshomeschoolhighschool.com/about-us/. And we've added a ton of new content recently. Drop by and check it out if it's been a while since you visited. Look forward to seeing you there, and I'm looking forward to hearing/watching your interview!

    Katie

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    1. Thanks Katie. I'll have to pop over and have a look. Sorry for not getting round to this earlier, but I've been away from blogging for a while.

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  4. Hi Imogen! I found your blog from your sister and mum blog. Yours is amazing. I love your header. How did you make it?
    -Steph

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    1. Hi Steph! Thanks! I followed some instructions my mum wrote about how she made her blog headers. You can find them here if you're interested: http://www.sueelviswrites.com/2012/05/another-easy-way-to-make-collage-blog.html. I only used one photo, but you can use as many as you like.

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  5. P.S Hope you don't mind I followed

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    1. Of course I don't mind. I'm very glad to see that you like my blog enough to follow it, even though I've been very bad about updating it for the past few months.

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