This is the exploration that I feel like I get to know and understand about Cambodia nation’s life looks like. Our group comes up a name called Human of Cambodia (HOC). This exploration is mostly focus on Cambodian life by going outside in different places around Cambodia to interview all those people about how their lives going and their personalities. We come up with this idea by on website called Humans of New York (HONY) and you go to visit that page by this website humansofnewyork.com. In this class the whole class needs to know the technique of taking the pictures for first of all by our first practice is shooting our friends with different themes. For myself I love to shoot photograph because I can be an expert of it in one day. We learn all the technique of interviewing by this man, Brandon Stanton who is the owner of HONY. For the first start of our exploration we start to write our own creative story which just posted before.
And here are the techniques of what questions we should ask?
Ask about the person’s action
Specific actions and habits NOT beliefs
Ask “forward” questions
(What keeps you up at night?) specific- (What’s going to keep you up tonight after this interview?)
forward question is talking about the future
Ask open-ended questions
can answer with YES and NO.
HOW or DESCRIBE
Ask dumb questions
If you don’t know what they saying just ask for “CLARIFICATION!!!!!”
Confused = ASK!
Ask pointed questions and light-hearted questions
controversial – lots of debate
light-hearted – funny, something random, brainless
Ask short questions and then follow up
ask something really short and then follow up
In our exploration working so hard on transcribing the audios that we had been interviewing from Khmer to english. For me sometimes it’s hard for to transcribe because I need to transcribe it exactly word by word so we can’t change the speech of the people saying. When we transcribe we don’t have to transcribe the whole this we need to listen and choose the best part of it. Sometimes when I listen to the audio I felt so happy because it’s funny but sometimes it’s normal. One of my big challenge in this exploration is when I go to interview people it’s hard for me approach them but I always think of the techniques that I learn. Our website is in two languages because we want it to balance and we can let all the Cambodians read it and foreigners too.
Here are the techniques to approach people:
energy you are giving off – non – threatening
escalating levels of intimacy
standing alone (it will be more likely to approach someone who alone)
broad? (broad to personal ex. to be optimistic)
→ He wants personal story
ask about moments (most success, most is specific -sadness, happy…)
if it makes you laugh
→ If it makes him laugh he puts on the blog.
We also follow the process how to get things done faster because we have many audios to work on so this is the process: 1. Choose the audio
2. Transcribe (English and Khmer) & Choose the best part
3. Check english with english facilitator
4. Check Khmer with Khmer facilitator
5. Choose the picture of the interviewee
6. Send it to Website Editor
7. Post it on the Website
During we interview we can’t just taking the picture as we want. We need to ask the permission from them and we need to ask them can we post in the website so it’s public. Go to our Websit NOW! To know about all Cambodians lives: humansofcambodia.ligercambodiablog.org
Here the example of our works:
តើនៅក្នុងជីវិតបងមានរឿងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ?
ក្នុងជីវិតបងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ គឺពេលដែលបងមានមិត្តភ័ក្តអត់ស្មោះត្រង់នឹងបង ។
ពេលខ្លះគាត់អត់និយាយស្មោះត្រងនិងស្អប់បង គាត់មានរឿងអីគាត់លាក់បង ប៉ុន្តែពេលបងមាន
អីចែករំលែកដល់គាត់ បងអត់លាក់គាត់ទេ បងផ្តល់ភាពស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យគាត់តែគាត់អត់ផ្តល់ភាព
ស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យបង។
“What is the saddest time in your life?”
“The saddest time in my life (is) when I have friends who do not (show) integrity to me. Sometimes they don’t talk the truth and they hate me; when they have something, (they) always hide, but when I have something, I always share with them. I don’t try to hide from them, I give them a faithful, but they don’t give me a faithful.”