Interviee _______________________________________

TASKS

• Set the index marker to ZERO.
• Check the tape recorder. If possible, use an external microphone and headphones.
• Position the microphone near the Interviewee for the best sound.
• Pause to check the sound level and the equipment at least once.
• Change the tape when it is finished.
• Label the tapes with names, date, and setting.
• Observe the battery power.
• During the interview and while the tape is running, fill out a Tape Log.

CHECKLIST: Did you:

____ Bring extra batteries and tapes?

____ Place FRESH batteries in the tape recorder?

____ Test the machine in advance to ensure that it is working properly?

____ Place the microphone close to the Interviewee? (If possible, use a microphone that plugs into the machine, rather than a built-in one.)

____ Set the counter to ZERO?

____ Pause the tape to test the recorder after the Oral Release Form was read, ensuring that you can hear the Interviewee and that the equipment is working properly?

____ If headphones are available, did you listen to the entire interview through headphones so that you could continually check the sound?

____ Fill out a Tape Log, listing key subjects, and match the subjects with the tape counter?

____ Monitor the tape so that you can change it when it is finished?

____ Monitor the battery power?

____ Label the tape with names, date, and setting of the interview? See the sample below?

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

____ Tape recorder(s) or video camera(s)

____ Microphones

____ Headphones

____ Extra batteries

____ Extra film