For our first assignment in the art of interviewing we were asked to find a freshman and interview outside at CSULB. For this task I thought the biggest challenge was going to be finding the person. However, this was not the challenge at all. Our interviewee was easy to find... all I did was ask a freshman I knew to get someone he knew to do it for us. Easy! So now onto the actual challenge of the interview... you ready for it, drum roll please... .... .... sound! Oh sound, what a painful process.
If you didn't know... which I know you do know, CSULB is right along the final descent of Long Beach airport and let me tell you, when you have the headphones on listening to the sound quality you can hear an airplane coming from a mile away. And the sound that you're hearing from a mile away shows up on your film. It's incredible but also very painful and tedious waiting and waiting and waiting for that dumb plane to disappear. Not to mention that on a campus people are walking around talking on cell phones, scuffing their feet, and tapping their hands. Mind you, we did the interview on a Sunday afternoon but there are still plenty of disturbances around; i.e. squirrels attacking our young freshman... it was intense but we all survived.
The other more controllable challenge with sound was the wind. When everything was set up for our interview and we were ready to say, "Action"... we put on the headphones and noticed that a hurricane was occurring in our ears. The wind quadruples in force when the microphone picks it up and records it. Insanity... but even still, all we did was move to a more secluded location. Within the more secluded location the lighting wasn't as beautiful, the background was less appealing but at least we could hear our interviewee speaking without El Nino blaring in the background.
Overall, once the location was found and the questions were being asked the interview was a success... minus the moments of pausing while we stared into the sky watching the metal bird fly overhead, praying it would pick up speed and get the heck outta of the air quick!
Ciao for now!
Raini S.
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