Preparation - International Students Documentary

International Students Documentary 

Once my group had pitched our ideas together, we have decided that we are going to create our documentary around the theme of international students at university. We've decided to do this as we are all interested in how international students find living abroad and starting afresh. We also have an international student in our group who gives us opinions on how she feels about the new situations. 

Now we have the base of our idea we will start doing background research on our idea and this will include looking at both on and offline articles, journals, films, and asking students and experts both within and outside the university. We will also need to talk with our interviewees to make them more comfortable talking about the chosen topics. 

In terms of questions that we will ask, we will need to rehearse with the interviewee before filming the final cuts incase there are problems with shots and sound. We will also need to plan questions that are not too broad, but not too narrow in order for them to answer the questions in a way we want them to.