Interview postmortem

I find the biggest problem about my record is timing. I interviewed Lisa for about 7 minutes and it was really hard for me to cut it in 4 minutes.

Lisa was a really good interviewee and she provided lots of useful information, but there were still some sentences I thought was not really important. Cutting these sentences was really hard. For example, Lisa may say five sentences to answer one question, but I only need the first and the third sentence. However, if I cut the second sentence, her voice doesn’t sound natural, especially if there is no pause between the second and the third sentence.

Also, we did the interview in MLC. I thought it should be quiet, but there was a guy kept typing when we did the interview. I think the sounds of typing is little bit noisy.

Another problem is that when I record my voice, I didn’t know how to control my breathe, so I had to spend a lot of time to cut these breathiness.

If given another chance, I think I will ask Lisa has she ever talked her passion with her family and do they support her.