Laura m. Green

For our oral history interview, Lindsay and I decided to use sound cloud. You can record from your phone, IPad, or computer. I downloaded it on all three devices and tried it out before we conducted the interview. Sound cloud is a very easy program to use. It is very user friendly.

We got to our interviewee’s house. We talk to Stephanie Lasch and explain our project to her. She was very excited about our topic because this was something she is very patient about. The interview started and everything was going well. Stephanie is a fast talker and we saw that we were running short on questions so we decided to add dummy questions in to slow her down. She was really a cool person to interview. She knew how long our interview had to be so she would keep looking at the time and made sure she gave extra examples or interesting facts to fill up some of the time. Stephanie was a very useful resource and said if we need any help later on this topic to not hesitate to call her.

Something that happened after the interview that was not funny at the time but is now funny that we have it saved in every place possible. After the interview was complete sound cloud has two options upload now or save for later. I pushed upload now and forgot I was not connected to the internet. My face got really hot and I was so nervous that we were going to have to do the whole interview again. I would have hated to waste anymore of Stephanie’s time. And just when we thought we had to do the whole thing again because I thought it was lost forever, it popped up. Thank God.  I was so glad that we did not have to do the interview again, because I felt it was so good the first time.

After that little glitch everything else went smooth. It was a very easy process to upload it to weebly. Lindsay and I did the prologue and afterlogue in class. It’s an easier task to write when you can bounce ideas and sentences off of each other to make sure they sound good. I’m very thankful that we found Stephanie Lasch and that she helped us out.

Lindsay Jones and I conducted our interview on Thursday with Stephanie Lash. She is a student at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey .  She currently Total Fitness in Williamstown NJ. With her experience at the gym and her University, we asked questions to try and find out what a high protein diet is. The interview went better than expected. We asked all the questions that we needed to find out.

1.      Can you tell me a little about yourself?

2.      What influenced you to do in to this profession?

3.      Can you tell me what a high protein diet is?

4.      Is this type of diet safe?

5.      What are some of the risks associated with this diet?

6.      Why would a person start a high protein diet?

7.      Would you try a high protein diet?

8.      How do these types of diets work?

9.      What are some foods that are considered high protein?

10.   What type of person would you recommend this diet to?

11.  What is a safe age to accomplish this diet?

12.  Working at a gym have you seen any cases where this diet has gone wrong?

13.  If you stopped this diet would there be negative effects to your body?

The interview we found out could take us in too many directions. Topic questions that we have not thought of before the interview. We were very happy that this happened because it opened up more doors and more options. One thing that we thought of was doing a vs. with maybe a fad diet against the protein diet. We are also still trying to figure out what age women we would like to focus on.

We decided to use sound cloud for the interview. We recorded the whole interview and then went to upload the sound and for some reason it was not showing up. We spent at least fifteen minutes trying to figure out where the sound was. Then when we were just about to do the whole interview again, the sound popped up. We were so nervous because we did not want to waste the interviewer’s time again. But it all worked out and we got our sound clip.

 We have so far had a dialogic collaboration for this project. We have done everything together, we have also been emailing each other back and forth to update on the project. We both went to the interviewer’s house and asked the questions.