When starting to do the video, I was feeling adequate for myself. First of all, I had an abundant amount of information on my video and I recorded the answers down so, it wasn’t really that difficult to make. But HOW exactly did the ‘Video Process’ go? Read on to find out.

Making slides on Adobe Spark was pretty difficult because you had to find pictures that exactly fit in, or you had to do a graphic slide. Putting the information in was simple. All you had to do was press the ‘mic’ button and hold, you would get what you wanted. Well, coming up with the right script was easy, since I had prepared an overwhelming amount of info. What was kind of tricky in that was you kind of had to transfer what the person said and make it into your own narration. Then after that, you would check the expectations of the interview video. 2 minutes long? Check. Has narration? Check. Links to the real interview? Check. Right music? Check.

After all those invigorating procedures, I finally got to the end. How do I think of it? Well, I think EVERY 5th grader should do it EVERY year.

During the third part of our project process, we had to record our interview, and eventually make a video about the person we’ve selected. During this conjunction, I think our collaboration was great, considering that the person being interviewed was my mom. But here and there, there was something that sort of diverted the topic. But alas the process was great.

The recording took us twelve minutes to ask 17 questions so about 70% of a minute to ask one question, and if you ask me that is pretty emphasized and long. But the only problem with that is because my mom emphasized too much and diverted us off the right topic and is not what I wanted. But after this process I was relieved, I got nothing too off the topic but still.

Overall this part of the immigration interview project is thrilling and compelling. I am sure that this project is going to succeed. 

After that we were starting our interview. Since I chose to interview my mom, she was chosen for a couple of reasons, she spoke fluent English and and also understood it. But anyways the interview went successfully pleasant. I got to learn a lot about my mom including true moments and memories.

When I asked her about why she chose to move to America. Fortunately I got the exact right answer wanted. She told me she wanted to seek a better life despite the good things back there but the government there was trash. The ‘president’ now was a dictator who wanted to rule as long as he lived. Something else was because the schools were strict on rules and descriptlines and the U.S had way more pressure. Everything she said was exactly what I wanted so everything is good on that.

After a long 12 minutes our interview finally ended positively. Somethings I could have did better is trying to make my mom answer short and terse answers since it took 12 minutes and I’m sure that’s not what a typical interview length would be. Anyways I like the eloquent language y mom has used.

So far our interview project has been going great.

Immigration Interview Blog Post #1

During the first process of our project, we were asked to interview an adult’s experience when he or she came to America. At first I had the slightest idea how I was supposed to find that person, but then I thought about interviewing my dad.

Even though my father immigrated modernly I presumed that we had to interview who traveled on sea, but I asked Mrs.Cooper and she said that it was fine. Coming up with questions were kind of easy because you just have to come up with something relevant, so that made it easy for it to construct the questions. Most of the questions I planned to ask him were not about how the trip itself because he traveled on a plane and it wasn’t really that vigorous to sit on a plane and do nothing, compared to sitting on a cramped ship where food was even a struggle and water was even a difficulty. You would sit on the boat for an estimate of 1 to 2 weeks compared to flying for about 1 day. Anyways, the general types of questions I asked him were open-ended such as what were your feelings when you came here and what was your intention coming here ……… 

Next I knew I needed to ask insightful and meticulous questions. Not just a Yes or a No question. For instance questions like: Why did you decide to go to America? and why? or What did you feel nostalgic for when you arrived in America? Questions like this makes you have to answer something more insightful than a Yes or a No. Also, it also has a follow-up question that makes the patient explain more deeply.

But even so I think that the process so far is going great and I am eager to go onto the next part of this project. 

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