Influences and Intentions by Kate Parkinson. Candidate number 9204.

Influences

As part of our initial ideas we researched different documentaries. We researched documentaries following people around in their lives, taking a personal look into their lives, etc,. We watched a few documentaries discussing people's popular or strong beliefs and decided that was a route we'd like to take. For example we watched this documentary about a family in America with very strong beliefs..

I found the whole idea of the documentary very interesting. This kind of documentary is all about opinions and different opinions which also gets the audience involved and thinking about their different opinions. After seeing the effect a documentary like this had I was influenced into doing one about strong thoughts and beliefs. One thing people feel very strongly about is tattoo's. This is where our fist influence to do this documentary came from.

I also watched a documentary that was centred around a guy who is very well known, The Rock, also known as Dwayne Johnson. The Rock is a role model to younger kids and they look up to him. He is an  influence to them. Using someone like him for a documentary is a great idea as people are interested   and will listen. This could be a great idea for us, however, we just don't have the ability to get someone that famous to star in ours.

Intentions
Our intention is too inform the audience of different opinions and beliefs on tattoo's and who should get them. We want to take a detailed look into the art of tattooing, the interest in it and why people feel the need to get them.