Meghan and Derrick interview
June 1, 2008 · No Comments
Interview questions that I came up with to ask Meghan and Derrick. I came up with these questions, asked them and helped to set up the lighting for the interview and Devin filmed it and did all the adjusting.
How long have you both been together, and how did you meet? (Both)
What was it like growing up in a military household and living on fort? (Meghan)
How did it affect your family when your dad was deployed to Iraq for a year? (Meghan)
Why do you think so many students from Oregon State end up getting deployed overseas to Iraq and other places? (Derrick)
Tell me a bit about the ROTC program at OSU (derrick)
On a scale from 1 to 10 how important is the war to you? (Both)
Do you think that the war will affect your financial future and if so how? (Both)
Why did you join the military? (derrick)
Why do you think students join the military? (Both)
Does your mental state change knowing that you are going to activated and probably deployed? (Derrick)
Since you are going to be Derrick’s wife, what are you most nervous for when he get deployed? (meghan)
Since you are going to be deployed, what are you most nervous for when that day does come? (derrick)
This interview took about an hour and it was full of lots of information and quality content.
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The last bit of content
May 29, 2008 · No Comments
Today we did our last interviews and we asked our survey questions to about 30 more students standing in front of the library. We got about 6 students to participate answering the questions on camera which, was awesome. Tomorrow we start editing our content in our documentary. I feel that we have worked superb together as a group and that we all took vital roles towards the success our project. I have throughly enjoyed working with Devin and Nick on this project. Team work equals success!
Tomorrow I am going to learn how to edit a documentary and film in general. It shall be educational and fun.
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Meghan and Derrick interview…
May 25, 2008 · No Comments
Meghan has been in a military family her whole life with her dad being in the Army. She lived on Fort a for a while till moving to Portland. She met Derrick in high school, and they have been dating for 5 years. Derrick is in the ROTC program at Oregon State. Once he graduates, he will be active for deployment and thus could end up in Iraq or somewhere else. They are getting married in August of 2009 after Meghan has finished her Masters for Education at Western and Derrick has finished his undergraduate degree at Oregon State.
Interviewing Meghan and her finance Derrick was an absolutely wonderful experience. The passion, the knowledge and the willingness to be honest was seen throughout the whole interview. They both had so much insight and information to tell us concerning the question that I asked and made up for the interview. They both were extremely nice and answered every question. With one question that asked, I made both of them a bit teary eyed. I will post a link with the questions that I asked them.
I learned a lot about setting up the lighting and positioning the lighting for camera interviews. Devin was extremely helpful and taught me a lot. He had be active by having me figure out where I should position the external lights for the interview as well as where the microphones should go as well. So not only was it a great interview with lots of depth and information, but it was also a big learning experience.
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Last night= success!
May 21, 2008 · No Comments
Last night was extremely successful. We filmed 3 or 4 interviews by asking the interviewees the survey questions that we came up with as a group.
The survey questions are as follows:
Name an Age:
Do you know anyone that is or has been to Iraq? y/n
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is the war to you?
Will the Iraq war affect your financial future or future in general? y/n and why
Does the war affect who you will vote for president in the upcoming election?
We used these questions to do our interviews. I feel that we are working well as a group and we all have good ideas to contribute. We also are getting the college of Democrats President and the College of Republicans President to interview.
We planned out and interview for today in which Nick and Devin went on and I am planned out an interview tomorrow night that we all are going to attend. Just talking to students we are networking to get in touch with other people and finding out new things. All in all, things are going so well. I am proud of our progress.
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project progression
May 19, 2008 · No Comments
Today was annoying because I had about 30 students take the survey that my group created yet, only half of the people actually returned their answers to me. Now not only do I have print out more not because people are so willing to give me back their answers but because people just did not give them back. I also only have about 10 actual answers. I am frustrated. I also had to cancel an interview last night do to my car breaking down coming home from Portland. All in all, it has been a rough 24 hours. However, I did reschedule the interview and hopefully it will get done before this weekend.
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