At the beginning of each interview have the person state, their name and who they are to the camera and then spell it out. This is useful for editing and creating titles.

It is the interviewer's job to enable, probe, listen and nod one's head a lot while the questions are being answered.

It is important that answers to questions incorporate the question asked. This is because we can't count on having a voiceover to set up the question in the edited story.

An example:
Q: How old are you?
A: Fourteen..(not useful)
A: I am fourteen years old. (useful)

Another example:
Q: What do you like about my room?
A: It's fun. (not useful)
A: Your room is a fun place to hang out. (useful)

Don't be afraid to have them answer a question more than once. Try to get short understandable answers. Sometimes people ramble on or jump from one idea to another. This makes for a difficult edit. If a rambling statement contains a good idea, then rephrase the question to get that idea.

Do not interrupt a response unless it is clearly going nowhere.

Make sure there is a clear space of about five seconds between your questions and the beginning and end of an answer so that clean edits can be made.

A good way to get people to give complete and conversational answers is to phrase a question in the following way: "Talk to me about..."

An example:
Q: Talk to me about your poster collection.
A: "I've been collecting posters since I was six. My favorite one is..."

At the end of an interview ask if they have any other good stories they might want to tell us. Have we missed anything?

People to Interview:
Your parents Your friends
Your sister or brother
Your pets (make up answers for them)
Your toys (make up answers for them)

Questions to Ask People:
What does my room (this thing) mean to you?
What does my room (this thing) say about me?
What are you thinking about when you look at my room?
Tell me a story about...this thing (poster, picture etc.)
Do you think I should change, cleanup, paint my room?

Remember:
iRoom stories are short 2-3 minute stories. If you shoot two hours of video it will add a great deal of time to the editing process. Try to get the entire interview in five minutes or less. And shoot no more than 3o minutes of video for your whole project