My interview subject for the “Watchable Interview Assignment” will be Zikreta Bjelosevic, or “Z,” as she likes to be called. Z worked in Rathbone Hall, Lehigh’s dining hall, during my freshman and sophomore years here, and had profound impacts on several students including myself. Z sat with us for hours at times in the dining hall telling us her past stories including her escape from the Bosnian War and her struggles getting to America. She has two grown children, both whom were able to go through college in the U.S. and become successful. Despite all she has been through, Z’s outlook on life is still profound. Her story is definitely one that needs to be heard, so I am excited and grateful to have her as an interview subject.
I plan on going to Z’s house to conduct this interview. She lives right in South Bethlehem, and I believe doing it here will be able to capture who she has and how far she has come. I plan on getting different shots of Z speaking, and also several b-roll shots of her home and belongings. I am interested to see what belongings she has carried with her throughout her life and get shots of those. I plan on asking questions about her escape from the war, the hardships she went through, and what it was like coming to America, finding work, providing for her children, and starting over. I think depending on where Z decides to go with her story (there are so many potential directions it may go), I will try to get b-roll shots that correlate to what she says; the visuals will be important in how she is portrayed.