The yearly interview

The same questions, every year

A short video, on her birthday, with the same five or six questions. On its own it is nothing much. Fifteen years later, with all of them in a row, it is probably the most valuable thing in the whole capsule.

The questions

• How old are you?
• What is your favourite colour?
• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• What is your favourite food?
• Who is your best friend?
• What do you most like doing?
• What do you want to say to yourself when you are grown up?

Rules that make the series work

• The same questions, in the same order, every year. Changing them breaks the comparison.
• Always on the same day, her birthday, so it never depends on a decision.
• Do not correct her and do not push. "I don't know" is a great answer and ages very well.
• A short video, landscape, always. A minute is enough.
• At two, almost nothing will get answered. Record it anyway: it is the first of the series.

Where to keep it

In the capsule, titled "Interview, age X", always the same way. The consistent name is what lets you find them all together and build the sequence later.