We started by developing questions to ask Victor and we wanted them to cover the entirety of his life. Our questions were very open ended and aimed to get him to discuss his experiences immigrating and his life in the U.S. He had very intricate responses and very powerful memories that we had determine which was most essential to explain Victors experiences as accurately as possible. We decided to split the footage up into three topics that would be the essence of our video his life in Guatemala, His journey to the U.S, and adapting to life in the U.S and getting educated and succeeding in his career goals. I wrote down every word he said in the interview to better understand the dialogue. Our piece got developed over time more and more of an inspirational story describing the struggles Victor has faced to overcome adversity and the doubts he received from many people. We did a substantial amount of research online about Guatemala as well as Victors current and previous positions working with the mayor. Also we studied major events throughout Victor's life like where he attended college.
For everyone of our projects we used different writing techniques such as prewriting and attempting to get as much context down to start off a project. In this class we learned to draft three times when working on a project because then your piece of writing progresses and eliminates all the errors. In the quest for refuge project we decided to stick to four main ideas Victors life in Guatemala, his journey to the U.S,Victor getting educated in the U.S, and adapting to life in America. The editing process was taking all of the information I received from the reviews by students and the teachers and evaluating how to use the advise to improve my video.