Release form

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZf6-S1FtYta9Mh5Zxe3BO2k6ZgkpbxL/view?usp=sharing

Audio

https://soundcloud.com/user-364198477/life-during-the-epidemic

Reflection

This week we completed the first assignment of this semester. Doing interview is not a strange thing to me. In the article “Podcasting and Podcasts, Parameters of a New Aural Culture”, podcasting imbued in us the enthusiasm of possibility. Namely the possibility, in ‘one space’, the conversations about lives and experience relating to a subject which you interested and passionate about, generates a deep sense of connection (Llinares et al. 2018). I chose my friends around me as the interviewee, at first, I was worried that she don’t know what to say, fortunately, she was very interested in this topic. She talked a lot about her current situation. During the interview, I found it is important to be a qualified listener. It is a kind of respect for not to interrupt when telling the story and give some response in an appropriate time. McHugh(2011) mentioned it ‘aerobic listening’ in his article, that ears-on-stalks concentration we give our interviewees during a long and fraught oral history interview. Due to the remote interviews via phone, I found that the audio quality is not good enough when editing. I am still in the exploring stage for the using Adobe audition. I hope to solve this problem in my future works. At the end of the interview, I told my friend that our conversation will be public, she agreed with that and signed the release form. This is a very important part for protecting others’privacy but it is easy to be ignored by the producer.

Reference

Llinares, Dario, & Fox, Neil. (2018). Podcasting : New Aural Cultures and Digital Media. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Siobhan McHugh. (2011). The Power of Voice, commentary, Transom.