Project Ideas

Three ideas for project:

• Music and Mental Health

• The Misconception of Skateboarding

• The Challenges of Competitive Swimming

I have come up with three ideas for my project. I am most drawn to my second idea, The Misconception of Skateboarding, as it is something that I have been wanting to explore for a while and become more knowledgable about. I have a lot of friends who skateboard and I am always interested when they talk about their skates and their experiences associated.

If I chose to go ahead with this idea, I will intitially seek out interviews with desirable contacts in the skateboarding scene. I will then research skateboarding history and the misconceptions associated with it and see if they link with the misconceptions described from the skaters I speak to.

I feel like the misconceptions associated with skateboarding aren’t spoken about and addressed as much as they should be and there is definitely opportunity to explore it and produce a good quality piece of work. I would be able to take photographs of the skateparks, the skaters from afar and headshots, skateboards and graffiti. I feel like I would be able to use my skills with aperture well and also to have a go at motion pictures.

As I used to be a competitive swimmer, I feel like I would be able to produce an article with highly-finished images on the challenges associated with it quite well. I have a lot of knowledge about swimming and the routine involved when you are in training. I feel like one of the issues with this topic is whether or not I would be able to take photographs as there are rules in place at swimming pools which often do not allow photography. Therefore if i go ahead with this idea I would have to take pictures of swimmers outside of the pool area which might not be as good.

Music and Mental Health is a topic I really enjoy covering as it is so broad and there are so many areas of it I can explore. If I were to chose this topic for my project I would focus in on how it can help anxiety and depression and interview people who have good stories surrounding the topic. The only issue with this idea is that I am doing a similar topic for my Radio Journalism Project and I might want to do something different.