Change of Project

We decided that a movie would be too difficult to manage because of all the editing we would have had to do. We then were debating whether to do a Power Point presentation or a Podcast. Podcast was our final decision, it would make it easier for us to create a better overall project. In my opinion, I think this was a smarter choice for us because a video would be more complicated and a power point is boring.

Our Complete Survey

Here are our survey questions:

• What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of immigration?
• What is your opinion towards immigration?
• How should the US handle immigration?
• Do you think immigration is connected to terrorism?
• Do you have any relatives who have immigrated here illegally?
• What do you think about the border patrol? What about the volunteer citizens?
• Do you think that these immigration terms will change?
• Do you think that the US is dealing with immigration in the right way?
• How do you think that immigration will affect your future?
• What do you know about immigration?
• Do immigrants hurt or help the economy? How so?
  

Survey Questions

It's easy to think of question about our topic, immigration, because it's something that everyone knows about and everyone has various opinions/feelings towards this topic. We plan on asking people simple questions such as:

• What do you know about immigration?
  
• What is your opinion towards immigration?

We hope that these questions will get them thinking about immigration so we can go into some more difficult questions.

Writing the Treatment

Writing the treatment made us think about how we should approach our project and what the contents of the video will include. It also gave us an idea of how our project will look and what kind of materials or programs we will need to complete the project. It was difficult to think of ideas for this project so early in the process so at least it got us to think about our project. I'm not sure that everything that was put into the treatment will be exactly like our project but it will be similar.

Project Difficulties

First of all, the many blogs we have to do can be annoying but they are fairly easy to write. I think the video will be difficult as well because it's not as easy as people think it is since you have to edit the video, add audio/music and collaborate it into one whole video. Research can be difficult too because not all sources are reliable and we have to check our sources to make sure our information is correct. I also think being neutral will be hard in this project, I have various opinions about this topic that are very one-sided and it will be a challenge to put those opinions aside.
The difficulty of this project is that some people might not want to talk about immigration because it's a sore subject, the population is made up of immigrants, illegal or not. On one hand, immigration is a bad thing because it's costing the US a lot of money and on the other hand, people that are coming to America are coming because their life in their original country was unsanitary and they might have lived in poverty. There are many issues regarding immigration and it will be interesting to know what other people think in our community about immigration.

Topic Selection

My partner for this research project is Fuad. We've decided to go with immigration since it is a huge issue surrounding the US. We still don't know if we should do a Power Point presentation or make a film about. In my opinion, I think making a movie would be easier but on the other hand, a Power Point would be a solid presentation and we could pack it with good information. This project doesn't seem like it will be that difficult but then again, nothing seems difficult until you're actually doing it.