Ashley Pfaff

     With the approach of today, there is officially only a week left until our collaborative research project needs to be completed. It was decided that in celebration of our LAST blog post for this semester, we would collaborate together to creat this post based on our similar worries and opinions. Where are we in this process? Way too far behind, and honestly it is making us a little nervous. Who knew that something as simple as a research project could be so nerve wrecking. Maybe it is the fact that we were so set on who we were going to interview in the beggining, and because of complications, that plan slipped right between our fingers.

     We managed to get a longer interview from Kaitlyn's sister and cousin, a whopping eighteen minutes total, but we still need more. Our class time today consisted of pulling quotes from our sources to be put in our final documentary video. Meanwhile, Kaitlyn managed to get in touch with a friend of her father's who owns a slaughter house. He stated that he didn't know "how smart" he was going to sound, but he was willing to try his best. We can't say that we feel relief, as we can no longer get our hopes up because of our original interviews that failed, but we are in high hopes that this will turn out differently. 

    On a happier note, our annotated bibliography is in the midst of being completed, HALLELUJAH! Christie has been working hard on that, while all three of us have also been taking apart quotes from our sources to be added to the final video that Christie and I will be working on together. Our plan is to take the interviews from Kaitlyn and incorporate those with facts and effects to make an informational video. Lets just hope everything runs smoothly, because we are officially cutting close to the deadline.

     As a group, we came to the conclusion that during our interview process, one person would conduct them, and the other two would work together to complete the editing and publishing part of the project. Our initiative for picking our research topic in the first place was the fact that Kaitlyns father raises his own livestock, along with a few of her fathers friends. Because of this, we knew that we would have the access to a few different interviews that we could peice together in the end. This would give our collaboritive research depth, along with varied persepectives. Because we are trying to figure out the motives for raising your own livestock, it was important to focus on more than one person, making sure that the results would not turn out to be biased.

     Although it looked like we had everything all together and planned, not everything can run smoothly. Kaitlyn informed us that those who she originally wanted to interview were not cooperating as well as planned. Her fathers friend in particular refused to be video recorded or voice recorded in fear of judgement of his "hillbilly self". She is going to try and continue to push for this interview along with one from her father, as they would play a significant role in our final research. We hope to have these completed by the end of this week so that we can peice them together for our final draft due next Thursday. It is going to be a close call, but hopefully the odds will be in our favor.