With a few purchases, you can ensure your Legacy Interview captures high-quality video and audio. An interview can be captured using only a computer, tablet, or phone, so none of the items below are required. However, in our 5+ years of recording interviews, we have established a list of equipment that will improve the quality of what we capture.

The key to a meaningful Legacy Interview are the questions we ask to guide your loved one to share their experiences. Our questions have a sense of flow to them, but since each guest is unique, no two people get asked the exact same set of questions.

Online interviews can look and sound great if you focus on your microphone, where you place your camera, the lighting and the background.

More than 70% of Legacy Interviews guests are from outside of the St. Louis metropolitan area. If you’re traveling from out of town, these tips will help you make the most of your visit to St. Louis.

I am writing these Conversation Field Guide with the hopes that it can be used to one day train another Legacy Interviews host. Even if we had 100 great hosts, we could not capture all of the stories that need to be recorded.

Legacy Interviews reveal stories that families have never heard before. Watching the interview with your family you will be able to stop, answer questions, clarify details and laugh with your family.

Anxiety about recording a Legacy Interview is normal.

If a guest sees their role as the protector of the family image or is a person that avoids the spotlight, a Legacy Interview can be intimidating.