Essential Question(s):

How might people respond to a family member two generations older than them giving them advice?

What can we learn from earlier generations within our Senior Class community?

 

I would like to interview people’s grandparents about certain aspects of their life that I believe will share some insight into how my generation can reflect on their lives so far, and achieve their goals while also keeping hold of what matters to them. I believe older generations have a lot of experience, most of which can help my generation learn from their mistakes as well as pull out lessons that someone else has come out on the other side of.

I hope to shadow Shola Lynch or another documentarist as well as watch documentaries and see what types of questions are being asked and how an interviewer makes an interviewee comfortable enough to give honest and fully formed answers.

 

• • I will be pushed out of my comfort zone when talking to random people and having what I record be partly showing myself.
  • I’ll be collecting a whole other generation’s perspectives on how to go about growing up and achieving your goals as well as what to prioritize and how to know when to trust in something as opposed to trying to control everything.
  • I hope to see how my thinking about certain things progresses as I talk to more people with experiences I could have never imagined or been through.
  • I will interview everyone who opts in on zoom.
  • I think this is pretty feasible as long as enough grandparents agree to be interviewed. I hope to record our sessions with video but if they only want voices that would be ok too but I would have to ask their permission to record our conversation either way.