I learned a lot about immigration and my own dad during this unit. I actually found out so much cool and surprising information about my dad that I would have probably never known before if we didn’t do this project. Even though there we so many surprising and fun things about this project, there were a lot of troubles I had that sadly some people didn’t.
Cons:
The biggest problem with my immigration project was the glitches. Somewhere towards the end of my adobe video, I began having a lot of technical difficulties with the photos which slowed me down since it was so confusing and I didn’t have it fixed for a while. Basically, all the different problems with the photos slowed me down and stressed me out a lot, so I was behind a bit.
I found it also confusing to do a lot of things on the adobe video like add photos from my dad and add music. All of that I had to figure out myself because the week before I had covid, and couldn’t work on my project or be here to learn things about it. It was also annoying because I had to do most of my Adobe video on the break because I mostly couldn’t work when I was sick. In the end, I found out how to work out most things except my photos which later had problems that slowed me down.
Another thing a little challenging was that I just started learning about adobe, and since I was absent in the middle of the project I didn’t know some things everyone else knew until I found it out the hard way. Some of these things are in my recordings the audio would glitch if I didn’t start after 0 seconds, and simple stuff that was probably taught in school like what to name the adobe, how many slides you need, etc.
Pros:
The biggest pro was while doing a project interviewing an immigrant, (my dad) I got to learn a lot about my dad that I wouldn’t have known probably without this project. It was surprising and fun to interview him because I got to know my dad’s real back story, and it is interesting!
Writing the questions was very wonderous and fun because I got to think about all the things I wanted to learn about my dad, and when it comes to writing and knowing ALL about something, I was going to put all my effort into the many questions I had. At first, I thought I would have very few questions but when I started thinking of all the ideas I could use I went overboard with questions!
A really helpful thing was the examples of questions to ask, and other students’ projects. This was extremely helpful because I got an idea of what to do and expect, and I had many questions that I could start with and expand on. Without these things, my project would have been much worse.
It was fun making the Adobe video. Adding photos from google especially, and found beautiful photos of cities (NYC and Tel Aviv), and a mountainscape and beach (Switzerland and Hawaii), with calming and mesmerizing music. (I needed to find those photos to include the cities Guy immigrated and came to/from, and where he’d traveled.) After adding all of that including audio, it was super satisfying to watch the end result so far.
In conclusion, this project had many ups and downs, but I ended up really liking how it turned out, and I’m proud of myself. Here is the final Adobe video: