Reflection

Undertaking assignment three in trying to find an alternative view or different opinion on my first interview assignment with Valmar employee David Barrie I initially first thought about getting in contact with a mother or father of a child that attends Valmar and see their opinion on the matter.

I was able to get in contact with a mother of a child who has autism and she agreed to do an interview after I gave her a little bit of the background. The night before I had the scheduled interview I was a little hesitant towards some of the questions I was going to ask her because on one hand I wanted to know a little more specifically on what has happened with her child and how her child has been treated and so forth but on the other I felt as though I didn’t want to perhaps be stepping over the line so to speak as she might not have wanted the interview to go to personal. At the last minute I pretty much left this up in the air and went in the interview thinking that if I feel it’s going well and she seems confortable I will perhaps ask some more personal questions towards the end.

At the start of the interview it was apparent she was pretty comfortable talking about a range of topics and even talking specifically about her son so it was then natural for me to start asking some more in depth questions regarding her situation and not just getting her general thoughts as a whole.

Editing the audio of the two copy and grabs and one wrap was a little awkward as I noticed my first interview had a much poorer sound quality level than my second and when I had to combine the two together it gave an annoying tone of difference. I did set up both recorders exactly the same as I followed the guide online and thus I’m not sure if I just had a bad mic on my first recorder or if perhaps I accidently had a loose connection somewhere. In future I guess I just need to be very mindful of every little detail and even triple check rather than double check.

Overall it was more a learning experience than a successful experience for me. I know I have a lot of areas I can improve on and I know I could have done a lot better. At the same time I feel as though areas that I  have underperformed on by doing so has made me realise just how much more effort I need to put in next time around.