The immigration interview project is a project that makes you find a person to interview, interview them, put it into a script, and make the script into a video.

First, you needed to find a person to interview. I had two people in mind, my grandma and my mom. I chose my mom because she could speak English while my grandma only spoke Chinese. After you find the person to interview, you have to make a list of questions that answers the information you need. You also needed to get the questions to suck in as much information as you can without getting nosy. You had to sound friendly not pushy like, “How did you lose?”. Instead, you could change it to, “When you lost, what did it feel like?” You also needed 10-15 questions (at least 10). Something that was really enjoyable was interviewing them because you got to learn things that you never would have known, finding pictures was also enjoyable. Something that was challenging was making the video because you had to line the pictures up with the voiceover and you had to get over two minutes. Also, getting the photos were a little challenging because, for some of them, you needed to ask the person for a picture. For example, I had to ask my mom for her wedding photo for one picture. Some resources that were helpful were the google doc with all the questions, my friends, Mrs. Cooper, my dad, BrainPop, and the interview videos. They all gave me advice.

After all the questions, you had to actually interview them. You could interview them in person, or on the phone. I did it in person because I lived with my mom. After you got the answers, you could record them or write the answers down. I recommend recording them because you usually can’t write the answers down in time. If you record the answers first, you could rewind them and then write it down. It went faster than expected and easier than I thought. It only took about seven minutes. It was also really easy to interview because I already practiced reading them. I learned to not sound nervous, or sound like a robot because if you did that, it could make the person not want to share their information or make them feel awkward. You also didn’t want to be too nosy. I learned that from BrainPop. After you rewinded them and wrote it down, then you had to put in a script. In the script, you had to write what you were going to say and what the audience was going to read, and the picture the audience was going to see. After that, you had to put that in the WeVideo and get the photos and do the voiceover. If you couldn’t get the photo from WeVideo, then instead, you could search on google but it had to be copyright free. The most interesting thing I learned was that when my mom left (immigrated) she left all her family members behind (sister, and parents). 

Overall, the immigration project has been very interesting and fun because you got to learn things you never knew about a person or family member.