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The Live-In Approach to Storytelling
The Live-In: Feature writers often deploy a technique called the "live-in." This is a moment that takes readers into the life of the subject, and it demands that the journalist witness an unguarded, telling moment in the subject's life. Here's a photo project that developed over the course of nine years. Here's a two-year project on a new military recruit. Here's an example from a 475 student for a profile on Ken Bone. It’s Tuesday night following a Sunday night road loss to the Oregon Ducks, and Connie Bone has prepared a dinner of barbecue pulled chicken, rice and broccoli. There’s no sports talk, just sharing stories and talking. A Pac-12 Networks game plays in the background. Video feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu10QswH5f8 Here's another example of a live-in scene from this story on survivors of the Great Depression: In the early hours before dawn, Thelma May Beets shuffled across the cold linoleum floor for a weekly inspect...
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