DO NOT BID IF (i) you intend to up-sell us, (ii) believe writing is simply filling a page, with words, (iii) want any money up-front as we escrow full amount or (iv) don’t know how to record a phone interview to a MP3 file.
DO NOT BID IF (v) English is not your mother tongue; (vi) you live outside the USA or Canada, (vii) you do not intend to complete the project or (viii) do not meet, fully, the requirements listed below.
A small, poverty-stricken on-line magazine needs a qualified, thoughtful journalist to conduct an interview.
The project best suits someone familiar with (i) pop and rock radio (ii) in the DC to Boston corridor (iii) during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Here’s a skill-testing question: what radio station did Dick Summer, Bruce Morrow and Bob Smith work? If you enjoyed the radio you heard, in those decades, it’s all the better.
The interviewee is intelligent, knowledgeable, well spoken, interesting and interested in doing the interview.
You need to do a little preliminary research, which might take a half hour to an hour. Take longer, if you wish, but not on our dime.
You must record the interview, as you do it, preferably to a MP3 file. Recording quality must be clear, clean and crisp. We verify recording quality before releasing your payment from escrow.
Together, we’ll derive a list of questions for you to ask the interviewee.
This list is your starting point. You’ll need a nimble mind and plenty of good sense to know when and how to follow up on incomplete answers, for example. If you didn’t understand something said, readers, of the interview, wouldn’t, either. You must ask for an explanation or more explanation as necessary. You must ask for examples, too, a great many examples.
The interview must be as complete and thorough as possible. If done properly, the interview will last about 90 minutes. The interviewee has much to say and the time will fly.
Once the interview is complete, send us the MP3 file using yousendit.com or a similar service. We arrange for transcription. At this point, your involvement ends.
After we confirm the interview is satisfactory, in terms of content and recording quality, you receive full payment. Confirming acceptability, of the interview, may take 72 hours. Usually, we confirm and issue payment in one business day or less.
We escrow the full project payout before you begin working. No payout until project is complete: burned too often to trust any bidder. If you require any form of pre-payment, please do not bid.
In total, the project takes 3 to 4 hours to complete.
We expect to award the project by 8 pm on Friday, 5 June 2009, and the interview conducted during the week of 8 June 2009.
Bids must include allowance for phone charges. Use Skype. It’s free to install. Phone calls, using Skype, cost pennies per minute.
This project posting is not exclusive to scriptlance.com.
Finally, where there’s one, there may be a great many.
