April 18th

Monday, April 18th

Today was an excited day for my project because I got to start a new part of the process. That new part, is editing. Since I didn't have an interview today, I decided to begin looking over my interview from yesterday. I listened to it and realized I really did get some valuable things for this project. However, there are also definitely things that need to be cut out. I'm having a difficult time deciding which parts to take out and which to keep. I think that it will be a lot easier to make these decisions once I have done the other interviews. The interview that I did yesterday was almost 2 hours long, so if I were to include all of the interview, my final podcast would be WAY too long. I'm struggling to choose what ideal length of a podcast is, but I'm assuming this is another decision that will come with time as I go through the interview process.

After listening to the full interview a few times to try and decide what the most important parts were, I began cutting some things out that I thought were unnecessary. I was very hesitant when doing this, because I wanted to make sure I didn't actually cut out anything that could become important later based on other interviews. Because of this, I decided to keep an original version of the interview in addition to the cut one.

Tomorrow I am interviewing Blakely Mattern, and I'm super excited to see where that takes me! I'm hoping to get a great interview with her, and then begin comparing the answers that I got from her and from Mary McVeigh.