Actually doing the interviews

Monday was pretty hard. I got my phone interview with the Youth Coalition Director. I had a little sound difficulty, but I fixed that. I think I ended up recording her interview without enough volume, but I fixed it in editing. :)

She was also not exactly up-to-date with the changes to Youth Allowance, and the impact that might have specifically, but she had a bit of an idea, and was unimpressed with the lack of consultation to people concerned with the changes. I was a bit nervous about the interview, but interestingly, sitting in a booth and staring at a mike was very calming. I even managed to question her in a way to clarify her answers a bit, without offending her. She was very nice to interview.

I was a bit stumped for the second interview. My first attempt at talking to someone in the UCSA ended with an email address, and no phone numbers, despite asking. I duly sent the email, but again, had no response. Knowing that I couldn't go the day without one, I went back in and hassled the desk guy again to find me anyone who would do an interview, and lucky me! He pulled out the president.

He was quite informed on the topic, and took hold of the mike and gave great responses. He also understood that when he stuffed up sentence (which he did a couple of times), he did his own re-take, so I could use it as a grab. That was really helpful.

And I had two interviews! Yay!