This week I finished listening to all the stories. I really like Ibrahim Hamide’s story, especially the part about his friendship with a Jewish Rabbi and catering the Rabbi’s son’s bat mitzvah. That story alone is great, but it’s fairly short. However, he talks a lot about what it means to be a Muslim, an activist and an immigrant. I think I could weave together those parts to create a well rounded themed story about cultural understanding. I’m still planning to start with Alito’s story because that feels more straightforward. But hopefully once I get more familiar with the editing process, I can tackle a more complicated story arch. Unfortunately, the recording for Ibrahim is very quite. I know there is a possibility to boost the sound with editing software. So, I may be able to fix that, but the interviewer also tended to interrupt Ibrahim or make sounds in the background. So, while the content is great, his story may be hard to edit for radio. I also listened to Scott Barkhurst’s story and while the interview was a great overview of the history of the Very Little Theater, I didn’t hear a good story in there.
I emailed Nancy from the library about the indexing project but I haven’t heard back. If I still haven’t heard back from here by the end of the week, I will try calling her. In the meantime, I’m hoping to start the indexing on my own. It would be helpful to have examples from Nancy on how to categorize the information, but I think I can at least start typing up the info into an Excel sheet. I will begin working on that this upcoming Thursday. I also plan to download Audacity and start playing around with and learning how to use in the following week. I’m not sure at this time how possible it will be for me to have edited my first story by week 5, but I will try to start the editing process in the next few weeks. Since I’ve never done this before, I’m unsure of how long the process will take. I will have to update my timeline once I have a better idea of the time necessary to edit audio.