Process Blog 08

Week 8 of the quarter!

This week was not that productive. I have been sick for the whole week and I don't know when this bad flu will be gone! Hopefully, we didn't have class but work was expected to be done. Also, having no due dates made me procrastinate. Personally, I don't like to procrastinate, but I couldnot help it this time! Later in the week I thought that I have wasted a lot of time and I need to back up and start working.

On Wednesday, I had some phone interviews and one physical interview. I found these interviews, helpful as I got several stories about war and children in war. I felt the phone interviews were more helpful than the physical interviews. The interviewees were from the war zone. They talked so much about what they felt and what they are feeling. I notice from these interviews was the first day of war was the worst. As they were sleeping and 3 am they heard a sound. They were scared as they didnot know what was that sound until they opened the news.Each one had their different story and what they did. I was glad to have these interviews because there was a lot I didn't know. It's true that experiencing war is different from watching and listening to the news.

On Friday, I thought of mapping out my stories and thinking of how I want to present them. I started creating storyboards for each and I am still doing that. During class I talked with my professor and he recommended to think about the entire vision of my project and what I want to present. I am still struggling with that as I don't know what exactly to present. Hopefully, after mapping out my stories I will get to know.

Over the weekend, for my technology, I had a voice of a child talking about war. This audio is like a message from Yemeni child who lives in a war zone. I added this sound to the 360 video I found. This was definitely not easy to do as its taking for ever to export. I was only trying to see how it will look like and I am still working on that.

Here is the video! I know it's not high quality. It took for ever to export and I don't have time to reexport it.

I am trying to push myself to do and try stuff. I am sorry to say that, but I feel I am lost in this project and I don't know where it will take me.  

Thoughts about the Major 

Why we have to deal with social justice issues when there is no social justice? Why, I should think about others and no one is thinking about us? Why should I care and design for other people? I know the answer to these questions would be "To change the world"  I believe it's just a lie and nothing will be changed. I personally  don't think I will be able to make changes since I don't have a guarantee to have a job because of who I am, and not because of my skills and my ability! I am not in a social justice major and I didn't apply for that! 

This past week, I had a lot of negative thoughts, I have never thought of! I usually don't think that way, but seeing what's happening made me think that way.