Project Pitch

Headline- ‘The Misconception of Skateboarding’.

I am going to produce a longform, vertical-scrolling article for wordpress on the misconceptions surrounding skateboarding. I have decided to do this instead of a magazine spread on InDesign as I enjoy using wordpress and I am already producing a magazine spread for another module.

I will be covering sub-topics exploring different misconceptions such as vandalism, perceived antisocial behaviour, safety and drugs. I will structure my article so that is a mixture of context about skateboarding alongside information deriving from my interviews. I want to let the photos I will take for the article tell a lot of the story and further it rather than accompany it.

I am planning to take headshots of my interviewees with a low F-stop setting on my camera so that their faces are in sharp focus and the background are blurry. I will then take pictures with a medium aperture level of skateparks and groups of skaters so that there is a steady level of focus throughout the photo. I am going to play around with shutter-speed and ISO levels on the camera by taking photos of skaters whilst they are moving around the skatepark.

The article will be between 2000 and 2500 words long and will hopefully contain 12 highly optimised pictures which will lead the story. I will be writing the article for an audience of 25-60 year olds. This is quite a large and old target audience but I feel like the aim of the article is to destroy the misconceptions surrounding the sport and a lot of younger people are more aware of the benefits of skateboarding compared to the older generations who may need more information about it. I want the style of language used in the article to be quite casual and accessible but also informative.