Miss Education Ep 2: HOMELESSNESS
After the first Miss Education episode garnered overwhelming support, UTOPIA.SG went on to produce a second episode, which focused on homelessness in Singapore, a topic that still remains relatively new in this city.
My primary role in UTOPIA.SG was to research on the topics of concern and write the main body of the script, ensuring that the flow of content would be critical and coherent in the understanding of the issues. This included thorough research, long-hours of discourses with fellow teammates, writing and fact-checking. For this episode about homelessness, I also conducted interviews with social service organisations as well as an individual who experienced homelessness in Singapore.
I learned a lot from this process, mostly because homelessness was then a very obscure topic here - not many people, including Singaporeans themselves, know that there are homeless people in Singapore. It was also not easy doing a video piece on a topic that does not have many data points available online, but the lack also spurred us to work harder to make it a more accessible topic. Many thanks to the people who gave us their time and shared their experience and knowledge with us.