After I interviewed my Grandma, I made a video on her immigration story, and how she and my Grandpa came to the U.S.
While making the video about my Grandma’s immigration story, I first had to get the personal pictures from my Grandma. After that, I found pictures to match what I was talking about. For example, if I was talking about where my Grandma lived, I would put a picture of a similar place or find a picture of the real place where my Grandma actually lived. Once I put all the pictures in my video, I started to narrate my video, this took a few tries because of background noise. Lastly, I put the music in. When I was writing my script I remembered that I had to tell the story and not make the video in a question/answer format. It was hard to select images that had both a creative commons license and were good quality. A lot of the images I found were not good quality or they didn’t have a creative commons license.
I learned that interviewing someone and then making a video about it is much harder than I thought. I learned that when you interview someone, you have to listen very carefully because you might miss something. I missed a few things and I had to ask my Grandma more questions after the interview because I did not listen carefully. I also learned that when you interview someone you have to ask a lot of questions or ask for a lot of details because when you don’t, you don’t have enough details, and it is very hard to tell the story of that person. By learning these lessons, I found out that my Grandma immigrated to the U.S. because of my Grandpa’s job, and the government at that time.
Overall, I think this project was a good experience and that I learned a lot about my Grandma from this interview project.