For this week's blog post, reflect upon your experience interviewing your oral history subject. How did you feel about the experience? Do you think it went well - why or why not? What do you think you might do differently in future oral history interviews? What was interesting about your subject's story?
I felt kind of awed by the experience of hearing how someone's life story came to be. It's really amazing how much I learned from Mike (the guy we interviewed) and how well the interview went. Some of the reasons it went well include how much information we got from him and how easy he was to talk to. In the future I would move the recording device closer to the person being interviewed and make sure all of my partners were seated behind me (in the case of me interviewing). I learned a lot of interesting things from Mike, such as what it's like to move around to a lot of different states when you're younger. He also went to art school and learned how to paint before he realized he hated it. Finally, the way he looked at his art was the most interesting. He didn't really think about it so much as doing it and I thought that was really cool.
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