Category: Social Studies

I just finished my video and I am really excited to show it to my babysitter Jelena and my family. Overall, I learned how to do a proper interview and realized how lucky I am to live in the United States because I have many opportunities that people in other countries don’t have. I think this project helped me get closer to my babysitter (Jelena.)

Thank you for reading about my process, please enjoy my two minute long video about Jelenas Journey to America, I worked really hard…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UXsxDLjeaD9SZn_H-KR_ZdNZUhzXjrt_/view?usp=sharing

Once I finished the interview, I started planning my video.  I started by making a table and it had 3 columns. The first column was the script/narration, the second column was the text on the slide, and the last column was the visuals.  This unfortunately did not work well for me because for me it was just writing on a page and I couldn’t really understand it until I saw the whole thing come together in the spark video.   For this reason, I decided to not use this format to plan my video. Instead, I decided to just type out my script and do the voice overs for my video. Once I finished doing this I watched my video and added photos  I thought fit best. All in all I still have most of my video done I just need to make last minute edits.

I however am a little ahead from my class because I want to get this done by Thursday when my babysitter Jelena visits. I hope she loves it! 🙂

My interview went very well, although I was very surprised how short it was. But I think it will be enough for my video. I recorded my interview using camera roll. I regret recording my interview. I should have wrote what Jelna was saying in a google doc. This would have been easier because this had to be done anyway.  It would of saved me a lot of time. However, once I finished typing everything, I was back on track. I think this problem will help me when I start Capstone, I plan to type and record my video.

In my next post you will read the following:

• How I am planning the video
• Struggles I am having, planning the video

 

Immigration Blog Post #1

So for the next couple weeks I will be writing about interviewing someone who immigrated to America. I am pretty excited because I really like doing projects like these. The first thing I will be doing is picking who to interview. Next I will come up with questions for the interview.

 I decided to interview my babysitter, Jelena because, she moved to America from Serbia. It was no trouble thinking of who to interview for me because, I see my babysitter every other day. The only problem doing my project on someone I see every other day is I already know so much about her!

For this reason coming up with questions for my interview was pretty hard, but once I got into the groove of things I figured it out. My best questions are the one’s where I ask her questions that can be answered not just as Yes or No. These types of questions are called open ended questions. This is better because if it was a yes or no question Jelnena can’t really explain the answer to me.

I can’t wait to do my Interview!