AfterLives : Week 3

Interview Time

The team, exhausted from all the interviews

This week we conducted the interviews. It was quite an experience!
We booked an interview microphone from uni (which I handled during the interviews) and went around asking people three questions;

• "What do you think happens after we die?'
• "What would you like to happen after we die" (to ensure we got a wide variety of answers, instead of just "Nothing")
• "What animal do you feel best represents you?" (this helped us depict people as animals without the risk of offending them.)

After the interviews, I trimmed up the sounds so they were concise and manageable, which I then converted into a transcript. 

What went well:

• We interviewed quite a lot of people, and so we got very interesting, satisfying answers,
• The clever follow-up questions gave us rich descriptions to animate,
• The transcript will help us time the lipsync and animation and also can be converted to subtitles too.

What could be improved:

• I'm not very outgoing and confident, so anxiety and nervousness made it hard to interview people. We also had to be considerate of body language, to not intimidate people and had to word our questions carefully so as not to offend anyone.
• We could've interviewed a wider range of people to get more varied results.
• When writing the transcript I found it difficult to understand some words, especially when multiple people were talking at once. Thankfully, Cameron rushed in to save the day!