In a workshop a few weeks back we were told to get into pairs and practice recording interview style with borrowed equipment. Although I didn’t end up using the H2N Zoom in my PB3, it was helpful to test out the overall process.

I did this project with my friend Amber and we went into the RMIT Library and surrounds to ask each other questions. This was the result. We encountered a few problems right off the bat – firstly that the class had spent so much time trying to figure out the mic that we had about 10-15 minutes to complete the actual thing. It was also difficult finding an area to record that was both quiet, and that we wouldn’t be disrupting people by talking in. We hid in a corner of the library, but even then we must have frustrated everyone near us (hence the whispering in some parts). It was also kind of difficult to avoid making additional noise, like cluttering and movement etc., especially when we kept accidentally recording things. There’s a lot of ‘it’s been recording the whole time!’ and shuffling around.

Going through all the audio tracks was interesting for that, many conversations that I’m sure we didn’t even know we being recorded and a lot of 3 second snort laughter. Overall though, that activity was a lot of fun in my opinion. You can probably sense the humor in our voices, we weren’t really taking it seriously and it was hard to just make things up on the spot knowing you were being recorded.