This week we aimed to make videos for our blog post, create a conclusion for our podcast, and prepare for our presentation at the final exhibition. A majority of our work during this class and during the upcoming week is final touches as a draft of our write up and the podcast are complete.
We have determined our interactive component for the project. We were successful in creating videos for this blog post. We hope to ask the attendees of the exhibition “Think about a dream you had as a child. How did your neighborhood affect your ability to achieve it?” We were inspired to ask this question by Ahmed, one of our young interviewees who dreams of being a soccer player but feels that growing up in Regent Park is limiting his ability to do so. Ahmed shared this with us in an interview but we hope that attendees of the exhibition will share this through a journal. We have also all given our own responses to this question through videos embedded throughout this week's post. Through filming these videos we learned about the childhood dreams of our group members such as Fatiha´s dream to be a fashion designer and Miguel´s dream to be a biologist and own a pet shop
In addition to creating our blog post videos, we were successful in completing part of the podcast conclusion during class time, but Kaylee had to finish the remainder after class. We are still working to find a way to replicate the podcast without a watermark. During class we asked FOCUS staff for advice on doing so, as well as advice for compressing the file for uploading. After testing different upload methods, it seems that converting the file to an mp3 is the best course of action.
With the podcast completed our main focus in the upcoming week is our final presentation. By next Thursday we plan to create a poster with photos of our process and purchase a journal for the inclusion of an interactive element. We struggled this session to remain focused and create a plan for our presentation. As a result we plan to meet on Monday afternoon on Zoom.
As we wrap up we are excited for the upcoming exhibition. This process has been long and challenging but we have learned a lot through our interviews and research, which we cannot wait to share our final presentation.
Regent Park Radio Shack: Daniel, Fatiha, Kaylee, Miguel, Murshida, Rabia