Interview Reflection
In all honesty I would work to improve the quality of the questions I used. When formulating my questions and adjusting and editing them I ultimately kept back to repetitive quetsions. All in all I would spend more time coming up with a better method.
My questions can tend to be repetitive from what I noticed, some covering different reiterations of the same essential questions. I would definitly spend more time ironing out better questions to be able to provide better answers. If I could do it over, I would start on my fall break so I would’ve had more time to give better quality work.
If I was to develop a story, I would start by providing a story about how the elements of humanity were adjusted in the attacks. I would talk about and gather interview subjects about how the 9/11 attacks chanegd how they see and live thier lives. The angle would be to exploit and learn about the emotions of humanity.
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As in technology, I did not have any issues, my equipment worked as well as I intended it to be. You don’t need much when trying to conduct an interview, just a pen a few sheets of paper and somthing to record with.
You could use more proper equipment but I really just needed to use my phone that was on me, so everything was alright. What I would improve in the project would have to be how the project is preformed, and the freedom to chose a topic.
I believe the freedom to chose a topic would’ve been fantastic. 9/11 is a weighty and greta topic to chose from, but I would’ve gone for somthing more open, and more free to design and currate the topic. Then I believe that you should’ve been able to be able to use an audio recording.
Not everyone is in a position to use film, but audio is more accessible and more flexible in execution. You can easily put a recording device on any table without setting up any extra recording equipment. In all honesty I guess it comes down to preference in how you would want to execute your interview.
