Assignment One: Reflective Practice Post

My first interview was a great experience. I was lucky to have a talent that was extremely understanding of this being my first time. We talked a bit before the interview and reached a place where we were both comfortable. After I interviewed the talent, I was happy as I had obtained some good, real answers. That is until I looked down at my recorder and discovered it wasn't recording. I figured out that I actually had to press the recording button twice for it to record anything. Luckily my talent was understanding and we did the interview again. While her answers were still really good, I don't think it would have been as real as the first time, as she knew the questions already and had some sort of rehearsal before hand.

As I was editing and listening back to the interview, I found that I focused too much on the questions I was asking, rather than the answers. I think I could have asked a few follow up questions that would have produced some really good answers. Next time I will definitely listen to the talent and what they are saying.

Another improvement would be to do more broadening research. While I did some research on the Victorian strikes that just recently happened and a little bit of research on their pay, I think if I had done some extensive research on conditions and what nurses were expected to do in their jobs, I would have been able to ask questions that produced some more impacting answers.

When it came to editing all the footage together, it was a nightmare. From the moment I started using Audacity things started to go wrong. As soon as I opened it, it was slow and I was having a bit of difficulty opening some files. When I was finally able to open what I needed I started editing my footage. When I had edited quite a bit of it all, audacity decided to freeze up. Initially I wasn't worried because I have had a lot of experience with loosing hours worth of work and because of this I constantly saved my work. Little did I know that saving my files would make no difference. Audacity decided that it didn't want to open my files anymore and that they didn't exist. Now, I'm not slamming audacity, I think it's a great tool, it does the job and best of all, it's free. I've had no problems with it at school. I could have just received a bad copy or maybe it just isn't very compatible with Macintosh computers. In the end, to save myself any more annoyances, I used final cut pro and had no problems.

Another challenge I had when editing was trying to fit it all into three minutes. I couldn't include a lot of the questions I would have liked to but at the same time, I think that what I did include was essential for the final edit.

In the end, while I did run into some problems, I learned a lot for next time. The whole experience has been great and has given me a better understanding for next time.