Shortened Week and Working Easier

This week I will have gone to my placement only three days, but luckily the workload is getting easier. Since we're reaching a new plateau in our work on Letters to the Future (a presentation compiled of shortened interviews from notable figures of CU history), I am no longer transcribing interviews for the moment, but instead am focusing on just one interview. I had to first select several lines from the interview which I felt were most important to Ernie Westfield's story and compile them on a separate page. This is called a script. I narrowed the original 17-pages down to four by the time I was done. Today I took that even further because we have to total the complete presentation to ten minutes (and each interviewee gets a minute). A minute equals one page. So I had to look at all of the lines I had originally selected, look them over, and decide if there was one specific story that is unique to the interviewee, but also to Champaign-Urbana history. It took me no time to see what I wanted to do, and by the end of the day I felt confident that I had completed my first interview script. It's so cool to be able to take random lines from an interview spanning an hour or more and order them in different ways or take certain words and relocate them to make a legible and comprehensible script: all without altering what the interviewee said. I can really see how the final project will turn out.