Diversity Feature

Story

The story my group chose for this assignment was the lack of diversity at ONW since we knew that not very many people here at school really care about the things minorities go through here. We decided to mainly focus on racial diversity to make it a bit easier than trying to cover too many different groups of minorities. Which wasn't meant to seem like the only diversity that matters is racial diversity it was more because of the time restriction we had. For our interview we decided to interview Yabsira who is a sophomore and is also Ethiopian. The questions we asked her were mostly along the lines of what its like to go to ONW and not be a part of the majority of students.

Process

To begin we of course chose our topic which was first Awake but we decided it would be reasonable to do diversity because of the lack of knowledge on Awake and diversity is something that needs to be discussed at this school. After having a topic to go off of I started writing out the 21 questions we would need to interview Yabi. After plenty of technical difficulties we got our interview done and it went pretty smoothly other than the fact that Yabi looked very far away from the interviewer when answering questions. I then started watching through the clips I had of the interview to decide on what  answers I would use in the final piece. After I had decided I worked on my voice over script which I made Josh record because I don't like the way my voice sounds. Then i just continued editing and sequencing b-roll until I had a result I was okay with.

My Role

My role in this project was mainly script writer. I wrote all of the questions for the interviews and then I wrote the voice over that some of us used for the final piece.

Approach for this Time

My approach for this feature piece was to attempt to not stress over the lack of b-roll I had and to make it through the project doing what I could to make something decent and possibly worth watching. If you're asking if my approach worked the answer would be a definite no. I for sure was extremely stressed out about everything involving this project and I'm honestly amazed I got anything turned in on time. The video itself isn't even that great either.

Concluding Thoughts

I just wasn't made for convergence.