I feel like prepping for the interviews was relatively easy especially since we watched the videos of people who would go out and interview other people and then talked about each video after and what they did right. To come up with the questions we talked about each topic individually and I think after the first question was asked it was easier because then we could just branch off of that question sometimes or when someone asked one of the questions it was easier to come up with one that could also work. The motivation was that we wanted to talk about the themes of CODES and see how many students knew about it and how many students really didn’t know.
The weather was really nice that day. One thing I noticed and I think we all noticed was that they had bookbags out on the quad with stories on dealing with mental health and they had booths set up for counseling services. When we were approaching people for interviews I think we tried to keep it to one or two walking up and asking if they would be fine being recorded and answering a couple questions, then if they said yes we would get into more of a position where one person would sit or stand next to whoever was being recorded, one person would start recording, one person would hand them a phone to use for voice recording and then they would just kind of stand there. I think we did execute the interviews the way we imagined. I would notice that each one changed based on if they were alone, if they were in a group, which building they were in and stuff like that. I think some people answered better when they were in a group because they had more people to bounce ideas off of and stuff like that and some people answered better when they were alone because then they didn’t have to worry about what the people around them said.
I feel like from what I saw we made an impression about our topic. Ours was climate change, and although most people didn’t know too much I remember hearing a lot of people talk about how they know it’s bad and if we don’t try to get on top of it and do something soon it’s going to be detrimental.
