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UCSD Students Against Muslim Ban

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              This documentary focuses on retelling the story of a protest that was organized and held by UCSD students. This protest occurred to call the attention of the people around the campus as well as the media to review the issue of "Muslim Ban". This topic was chosen due to the reason of its long-lasting effect on the campus and the minority groups on campus. It insisted on the importance of viewing diversity more positively and actively.
              
              President Donald Trump and the White House signed the new executive order 13769 on Jan 27, 2017. As soon as the detail and the targeting group was revealed to the public, a lot of people all around the United States and the world began to protest against the implementation of this executive order. UCSD, as a campus that involves a large amount of Muslim Students, very soon sent out an email to all students stating their viewpoint. Hamoun, who was a Communication major and one of the Muslim student on campus, soon realized the importance of this issue. Then, he continued sending posts on his Facebook page and gathered a great attention from students onto this issue from his event page, which led to the big gathering that was documented and viewed on many social media and news sources. This event involved around 2000 students and faculty members on campus. It began at the silent tree that is in front of the Geisel library, then student groups went across the campus all the way to Revelle.

              This documentary did not explore deeply into all the details involved with the actual event though. It simply presents the cause ( the executive order 13769) and the event through the supportive footage from main news and media pages. This documentary was structured this way due to the limitation of the length of the documentary and the unavailability of the interviewing subjects. Therefore, in consideration of these two factors toward the making of this documentary, I have decided to simply present the story as if I was telling the story to someone who did not know about this event. In other words, my intended audiences are likely to be those who have not heard about this protest happened on campus, and in need of some supporting evidence and background information in order to understand the protest more effectively. 
 
               In the beginning, I was going to interview one of the student organizers of this protest; however, it was unable to be processed since he has moved away from San Diego and was busy with his everyday schedule. Therefore, I have changed my plan to make a documentary that only viewing this event at a surface level without any interviews. As I was doing researches online to find the materials and footages for my project, I have realized that there were a lot of existing "interviews" inside a lot of news articles that talked about why student organized this protest. These findings have particularly helped me in completing this storytelling process. 

                In this documentary, I have pulled out the original and official announcement released by the White House, and the President Donald Trump's reaction toward the issue to begin with. Then, it followed with several news reports that discussed this issue and event. Many source pictures are borrowed from the student's organizer's Facebook pages and the event pages. These footage and documents serve as supportive evidence to this documentary. Since most of my contents are news articles and video-based, I view them as B-roll footages as well. However, I have shot several shots of campus as background to complement some of my editings. Throughout the process of making this documentary, I realized that there should always be backup plans specifically for documentary makings. It is very possible that interview subjects would not be able to participate or would not be able to present in a certain way that the editor suggested. In addition, the beginning and the ending of the documentary were harder than one could expect. Running into a situation where an editor does not know how to end the project is common. So, storyboarding and researching ahead of the editing is essential in maintaining the efficiency of the filmmaking process. 

                My Aura location for this documentary was set to be at the "silent tree" area since it was where the speeches happened. Therefore, I decided to make the overlook of the Geisel Entrance with the silent tree as my trigger image for this project. As viewers could identify from the video that the speeches were majorly held in front of the silent tree, it is very reasonable and understandable that this location was selected. 


 

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