I missed class sadly during week 2 and thus missed the informative session we had on oral histories. However after catching up with the presentation and reading the handouts as best I could I still learnt a valuable amount.
People who know me describe me as a loud and extroverted individual, yet to those who I don't know I am as shy as they come. I am quite afraid of this oral interview part and usually fumble around new people. I have been considering the transcription part, yet I still would like to venture out of the box and try to interview someone.
Many of the small points of interviewing I definitely would not have known as a faux pas without the guidelines we received. I am guilty consistently of the "mhm's" and "oks" every three seconds to just let the speaker know that I am interested. I had not even figured the fact that it could harm my recording and lose some valuable information. The pause factor, again, I would have missed, I assume if you stop speaking that the conversation is done and time to move on to another point, not that they may consider a continuation on the subject.
I was aware of the need for at least two ways to record the narrator, I would opt for notes and an audio recording, with permission of course. Yet to come up with a series of questions that are not considered guiding is seemingly impossible. When someone has an opinion they voice I am usually ready to jump in and push for me but apparently in the wrong way with things with guiding questions such as "and then what did you do to resolve this" : what are you imagining for this".
Overall I am still trying to discern the area as to which I will focus my project. But I plan on a decision to be made by the end of this week and will post it so that everyone can see where I am headed.
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