Final Major Project

Initial ideas

The theme of our final major project is parents we are allowed to interpret this and go down any path we chose. I have decided to focus mine around the idea of young parents and the challenges they go through. I want to focus on the journey that they make from being a teenager to being a mum/dad. I have chosen this theme because my sister has recently been on this journey and i have seen the change within her and how she has adapted to become a wonderful mother. I would like to show and portray young parents in a positive way, they are perceived in a certain way to make them look shameful, immature and looked down upon. My initial ideas on how i will visually do this is to take real life situations and create videos of an interview with me asking a range of young parents about there experience and how they have grown. As well as creating photographs and posters around the theme. I will also have a range of people being interviewed who think young parents are shameful and i will let the young parents show that this is not true and they are great parents.

This website gave me some ideas as they interview a young parent and she talks breifley about the stereotyping and how people look down on her.

http://www.thesite.org/sexandrelationships/familyandfriends/beingaparent/youngmums

There was also an article from a young mother talking about her issues and her point of view

http://www.thesite.org/community/reallife/rants/respectforyoungmums

I am going to research with face to face interviews with my sister and with other young parents in order to get an initial idea of how i can develop the information. I will also find articles on the internet, look for books in the library or magazines about young parents and what advice they give as well as information on how they are perceived.