During this stage, I looked primarily at blogs and personal travel accounts so I could get a feel for the situation in each country, almost as if I had traveled there myself. As I wrote in my journal, “although these are not the most reliable sources in terms of factual information, they certainly provided me with a clear picture of the situation in different countries in a way that educational websites could not.” I ended up doing quite a bit of research so that I could weed out the sources that were biased or not credible. It is important to do online research with a great deal of discretion, and I was able to develop that skill in my work on the film. In addition to blogs and personal websites, I found some news articles that proved quite helpful, despite their sometimes biased tone. Overall, the key during the research phase was to look at multiple sources and source types before drawing any conclusions.
While doing the research, I compiled a document with all the information necessary to write the script. It includes information for a few countries, like Haiti, that I later decided not to focus on in the film. This compilation was essential in later parts of preproduction.
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