When I selected Ismar Rodriguez as my interviewee I knew the main challenge would be one: the distance between us. Since Ismar lives in Miami, and has an extremely busy schedule, I confirmed a date and a time to do a video-call and record the interview. In order to develop a fruitful interview, I searched through his social media profiles and found some of his audiovisual productions and designs to create some of my questions.
At first we planned recording the interview as a Facebook live in one of the group he manages, but we did not account for seemingly different Facebook guidelines for live-videos. Facebook has disabled the feature of a live video with more than one person—or at least that day we could not find it anywhere. After three failed attempts, we had to keep it private, and we developed the interview using the Messenger video-call feature.
Ismar is a very knowledgeable professional, and the interview eventually drifted away from the focus of some of my questions. Even so, I obtained useful material which ultimately shaped my final interview story. The phone call lasted over 50 minutes, and the post-interview information gathering took me a few hours. With this exercise I learned the importance of anticipating technology problems, and the relevance of keeping a narrow focus on the questions asked to guide the conversation.
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DHeRoja, I am very impressed with your patience on Facebook’s pesky limitations and guidelines that prevent you from utilizing certain tools. I do understand how easy it is to linger from your actual interview questions and get distracted, I’ve done it myself. I believe if there is one thing you could do to keep from deviating from your topic is to attempt to save your off topic questions that come up on a sheet of paper to ask at the end of the interview.
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The Facebook live option was a interesting choice, sorry that it didn’t work. It’s nice to see you stay so committed to someone who had such a busy schedule. I’m glad you were able to gain so much knowledge from him even though it was a face time call its obvious it was worth it.
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I can tell you put a lot of effort into the set-up of your interview. I’m sure it was very frustrating to have a problem with the Facebook live feature. It was nice reading about how you prevailed despite adversity.
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