I wasn’t totally unhappy with the interview recording with Claire, but I do feel that there were several easily fixed mistakes in the final edit. I should have picked up on them had I listened back to the conversation much more carefully. There is an unbalance in the room tone which could have been resolved by recording a new track with less disturbances in the background, and the recording could have been cleaned up a bit more to remove high end hiss.
There are a lot of pauses from Claire in my interview. I decided to keep them all in as I feel that it was appropriate given the topic of discussion and the pace of the dialogue. Upon first hearing the initial prompt, Claire is unsure of how to respond. I reflected on the article Ethical guidelines for editing audio (McGuire, 2020), that explicitly states that, “It’s not okay to tell someone what to say”. I left Claire to consider her answer instead of rephrasing the question as I didn’t want to lead her response in any way.
I also found it challenging to think of questions on the spot and I hoped that the content of the interview wouldn’t suffer as a result. Encouragingly the reading from the week 2 text, ‘Podcasting‘ (Llinares, n.d.) states that podcasts create “spaces for niche and cult content that caters for the more idiosyncratic cultures of interest”. Given that the brief need to be adhered to within the time and topic restraints, I think that this piece can be classified within a niche culture of interest.
Link to Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-803896620/if-i-had-my-time-again-assignment-1
Release Form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12hHwr3HldoZFvWDrsKTwJVTrAnfdeszh/view?usp=sharing
References
Llinares, D., n.d. Podcasting.
McGuire, M., 2020. Ethical Guidelines For Editing Audio – Jsource. [online] JSource. Available at: <https://j-source.ca/article/ethical-guidelines-for-editing-audio/> [Accessed 9 August 2020].