When I first got given my assignment to find or take a recording to deconstruct later on for my next piece of coursework. I had honestly believed it would be an easy concept, I had no idea what was about to come from it...
I had finally chosen what text I would be using for this assignment, I would be using a recording of Barack Obama’s inauguration speech from 2009 when he had won the presidential election. I still strongly believed this was an easy concept as I had to only download the video, I was still extremely wrong.
Once I had chosen the correct video, I had faith in this text and project as it had perfect sound quality, which will be able to transfer into a transcript later on. I had to then find a YouTube video converter. This was my first obstacle creating mayhem and a lot of distress for me, causing me to lose faith and belief. I could not a converter which would be able to download and convert my video they provided me with a ‘pop up’ saying the file was either too big or was too long in length as it was over 21 minutes long!
After a couple of hours I had finally I had found a converter which was able to download my project; this happened to be my second obstacle as I only needed the sound and not the video as well. As a result of this I had to find a different converter which was able to download the sound. After an hour and a half I managed to convert the file, only to be presented with another obstacle. This time I was unable to download the file onto the Apple Mac so to fix this reoccurring process of failure, as I was beginning to lose hope in my project, I had to move onto a Dell computer which had brung hope of being able to successful download my project, which I was able to! After all these obstacles and beginning to lose hope due to the amount of failures which had occurred I was able to burn the file onto a disc, which then I was able to present to my teacher at a later date.
People smile when I suggest getting the data - and saving it - is not as easy as it sounds..... I'm sorry it was so fraught for you. Now on to the linguistic challenge! You won't need all 21 minutes of the speech, so you will need to make some decisions about what to select. Beginnings and endings are usually good choices - aim for about 3-4 minutes of transcript which you can analyse in some detail. You will now need to consider what aspects of NVAS should be marked on your transcript. Talk to me about conventional symbols you can use to help you. I hope the hardest part is now behind you!
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