Reflection on first few interviews...

I have started data collection, and interviewed two people so far.  It's been a really fascinating experience in many ways.  Most importantly, the stories people are sharing are really interesting, and personal, and overlap the hosting experience with areas of their lives relating to family relationships, personal identity, and touristic experience in their communities.  I've found the participants so far have been seemingly very happy to tell their stories, and although perhaps a little perturbed by the camera at first I honestly don't think it adds any awkwardness to the conversation after a couple of minutes.  One problem I have to put more forethought into is the balance between allowing the conversation to flow, and wanting to capture a reasonable quality of video.  After successfully recording two interviews in terms of actually capturing video and audio I'm less nervous about the real basics, but I need to think about camera angle and lighting.  The last interview was in the person's back yard, which was lovely in many ways, the greenery and sunlight created a great atmosphere; but the neighbour's air conditioner, and regular air planes provided interruptions  and as the evening fell the lighting became very poor.  I will have to work out how to include the words and stories- it may be that there are noise interruptions etc., but as I move forward I'll think about these conditions before we start the conversation; I don't want to cut someone off and say "can you just hold that thought until that plane has passed by", as this isn't how people talk, and may position our conversation as a videoed interview rather than personal conversation.  However, this is all a good learning experience for me, and the technical aspect of my data collection will only improve as I continue.