This project was my favorite out of all of the projects we
did this semester. It was different to the type of essays I am used to writing and
it made me learn new things. I had fun working with audacity and trying to
figure it out. Even though it was not the easiest thing to learn to use it
helped that we had to do a smaller and shorter podcast about the NPR article. Like
usual, it took me a while to come up with my idea. I had first come up with the
idea of talking about the dorms but I had a feeling a lot of people know about
that and I really wanted my project to inform people about something about ASU
they might not know about. I decided to do it on the orbit bus system since one
of my friends frequently rides it. It was a little difficult to get my rough
draft done during thanksgiving week because I went home and wasn't really in
contact with the people I wanted to interview. In order to solve this problem I
sent my interviewers the questions through email and they wrote back their
answers. The hardest part of this project was probably getting the recording of
their voice. Since they had their answers ready it was hard for them to talk
normally and not like they were reading something. It took a lot of tries to
get the final audio because I had constant interruptions and we kept messing up
but I felt very accomplished when I was done.
I learned a lot during this project, probably more than any
other project. I learned how to use audacity and convert files to mp3 format.
Another thing that I learned throughout this project is to manage my time
because the time I had with my interviewers was limited and I had to get
everything done during that time. I also learned more about interviewing people
and getting them to answer in a way that would help my argument.
I don’t really think I did a good job at establishing my
argument in my rough draft which is probably why I struggled with the interview
questions at first. I didn't really know what my point was and had a difficult
time coming up with questions that would lead my interviewers to answer the
questions in the direction I wanted. After researching more on my topic and going
to workshop I was able to get a better understanding of what my argument should
be and how it should be established on my script. Overall I think my argument
in my final product was strong and well crafted.
