🎬 Media & Video Production · Pre-Production

Set up interviews that produce usable answers

Question design, comfort engineering, and listening technique yielding complete soundbites.

intermediate~35 minVideo CreatorsPodcastersDocumentary Makers

Steps

1Research enough to ask unexpected second questions
2Open with throwaway comfort questions while checking levels
3Ask one idea per question ending with open phrasing
4Embrace silence after answers; the second take is usually gold
5Request the story, not the opinion ('walk me through that day')
6Re-ask key answers cleanly once rapport peaks for edit-friendly takes

Common Pitfalls

▲Yes/no questions producing unusable fragments
▲Interrupting the pause where real answers live

Commands

Install with skills CLI

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill preproduction-interview-setup-craft

Install globally

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill preproduction-interview-setup-craft -g

Tags

#interviews#documentary#storytelling#media-production#preproduction

Install this skill

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill preproduction-interview-setup-craft -a opencode

SKILL.md

# Set up interviews that produce usable answers

> Question design, comfort engineering, and listening technique yielding complete soundbites.

## When to Use This Skill

Question design, comfort engineering, and listening technique yielding complete soundbites.

## Steps

1. Research enough to ask unexpected second questions
2. Open with throwaway comfort questions while checking levels
3. Ask one idea per question ending with open phrasing
4. Embrace silence after answers; the second take is usually gold
5. Request the story, not the opinion ('walk me through that day')
6. Re-ask key answers cleanly once rapport peaks for edit-friendly takes

## Common Pitfalls

- Yes/no questions producing unusable fragments
- Interrupting the pause where real answers live

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