Students will engage directly with Hispanic community members to build empathy, gather authentic stories, and document user insights that will guide their documentary filmmaking decisions.

Students will synthesize interview notes, community insights, and research from Phase 1 to define a clear, human-centered problem statement that guides their heritage documentary. They will transform empathy data into focused design decisions about audience, purpose, and narrative direction.

Students will generate and refine multiple creative concepts for their Hispanic heritage documentary by brainstorming, sketching, and storyboarding diverse approaches before selecting one direction to prototype in the next phase.

Students will create and refine rough-cut prototypes of their Hispanic heritage documentary films, integrating interview footage, researched cultural context, and intentional filmmaking techniques. They will participate in structured peer critique cycles, document revisions, and prepare a testable version ready for community feedback in the next phase.

Students will publicly share their short documentary films on Hispanic heritage, engage in a live Q&A with authentic community stakeholders, and demonstrate how user feedback and iterative revisions strengthened their final products.