For our WA#4, Andrew and I are going to do a media project over an interview that we did over Andrew. We began with how Andrew began to play basketball and then moved into his career now as a college athlete. As a college athlete, I asked him about literacy in the game and if he noticed it, used it, and thought that it was a good skill to have while playing the game. Our WA#4 will consist of videos, pictures from the game at DBU and when Andrew was a younger player, and clips from our interview. In our rough draft we have set it up so that are different things happening like on one question it might just be Andrew’s voice speaking while you are see pictures or it could be the video from our actually interview. This will keep the audience from getting bored by just watching the same thing over and over. I am really liking the direction in which this project is leading us because I love learning about how players’ stories of how they got here and why they play basketball and I believe that giving the players the knowledge that they are doing something so complex underneath the surface of just playing will help them all become better players.
I really like the code book that Andrew and I came up with and believe that it is really working well. We have realized that the few codes that we took down after looking over just a few fieldnotes really seem to work for other fieldnotes that we have taken. I was a little skeptical about using codes in the first place because I felt as if they were going to be a waste of time; however, I have seen that they help me to notice similarities in fieldnotes so that it is easier for me to connect things that happen from one set to another.
Last class period was a little difficult with the internet not working properly; however, we did get to watch Dr. Carter’s interview that she took at the East Caney church for its 151st anniversary. For the interview, Dr. Carter chooses to talk to Mr. Askew and Mr. Pryor, two older men who grew up and around East Caney. Unfortunately, we were able to hear most of the interview because of technical difficulties, but what I could stand was that Askew was born in 1932 and Pryor in 1948 and yet both had similar things that happen to each of them growing up. The community that they grew up in was poor and there wasn’t much means of transportation so you mainly stand within the community. Both went to elementary school where they got the hand-me-downs from the white school in Sulphur Springs and that they had very little school supplies. I was really shock that Mr. Askew chose to go to college to be something other than a farmer because back then if you grew up in a farming community or farming family you fate was set. You were going to be a farmer. Coming from a farming family myself, I know this because my grandfather was one of six brothers and all but one became farmers. And then my dad is also a farmer, so the fact that Mr. Askew took the stand to go out and find something more stable than farming in brave especially being who he was and where he was from in the time that it was. I wish that we could have been able to understand the video because I was intrigued by Mr. Askew’s story very much.
