Empathy Interviews
To start off our perspectives project, we had to reach out to people in our community and interview them. It was up to create the questions and set up the interviews. But before we started our interviews we had the option of creating a story with them or making a documentary. I decided that creating a documtrary would be a powerful way to show the stories of two people. Moving on, I had the great opportunity to interview my mom and my advisor, Joanne. I asked them questions such as: "what was your childhood like?" "Have you ever felt stigmatized because of your race, gender, or ethnicity?" After sitting down with them I realized that both their stories had a connection. Each had a difficult childhood, and it has helped shape them into the strong women they are today. The whole point of this project was to be able to dig deep into the lives of people and document who they have become.
Scriptwriting Process
Everyone went through different processes of drafting, personally I went through three drafts before I was ready to record my voice over. Below you'll be able to take a look at my final draft.