On Monday, I recorded two one-on-one interviews. This was a test to for my confidence in using the panel to check levels and liase with a guest. In the first interview, I was nervous and I think it could be heard clearly in the way I asked my questions. My guest had some interesting things to say, but the way they were said wasn’t in an engaging way for the audience. I hope that I can edit this interview in a way that highlights the interesting things the artist had to say about street art. I observed when listening back to the interview, that the direction of the conversation was mismatched, whereby my questions wanted to respond to the interviewee in an interesting way but also moved the conversation another way. I think the audio attained might better be used in a feature, because the guest had concise, punchy statements about the street art world of which he was a part.
The second interview I conducted was with Anthony,the vice-president of the Monash Club of Juggling and Fire Twirling . I realised from feedback of my first guest that it was difficult for him to talk to me from where I was sitting (MIC ANN 1) and where he was (MIC 2), telling me that it was hard to make eye contact and see me and he felt “awkward” talking to the mic stand and not me. With this feedback, I moved my second guest to sit at MIC 1 where it felt more like a conversation as we could respond to non-verbal cues. I had a really positive experience interviewing Anthony and was able to articulate my questions better. Something I can improve upon is structuring my pre prepared notes to not order questions but rather points on ideas that we can touch on.