MISSION▪X SUMMARY Megan Dailey
This is my 8th-grade, 2015, Mission X project. I decided to incorporate my passion, photography. After I set photography as the basis of my project, I started to look at different blogs online for inspiration. Soon I found Humans of New York. This is a blog by Brandon Stanton. He goes around New York and finds interesting people and asks them a series of questions. Once they get really into one of the questions he asks, he elaborates and asks more and more questions about the answers. In the end, he has a whole story. Then he takes a picture of them and posts it on his blog.
This really inspired me, so I decided to create a project along the line of what he does. I went around to all my classmates and asked questions that I thought might spark them into giving a longer answer, then I took a picture of them somewhere on campus. Once I finished this, I realized I needed to do something else to display my project.
I decided to make a book to document some of the students’ moments in their lives that they felt were important to them. Then I had the idea to add another one of my passions, psychology. At home I learned a lot about how to tell how people are feeling and how to tell people apart not by looking at them, but by seeing how they act and the way they talk. So I decided to do a study on this. I compared the patterns of how different ages and genders responded to different questions I asked. You may see at the beginning of some of my chapters that I wrote about what I found.
Overall this project was amazing, and I loved getting to do a project where I learned but also got to have a lot of fun. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of my book.
Each and every person's life is made up of moments—good, bad, happy, sad—but each one is just as important as the next. Though we are all different in our own ways, we still all have goals, hopes, dreams, and wishes. We all have yet another thing we want to be or another thing we are looking forward to. We all have our fears we hope to one day give up, our decisions that we wish we didn't make. We all have the people in our life that just by seeing them can make our heart swell. This book is about all of that: the moments that molded people into who they are today. In this book you will see how different people, different genders, and different ages responded to moments in their lives.
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To get good answers from people you are interviewing, ask provocative questions!
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