I want to focus on a project that has meaning beyond the present. I want to be able to watch the film I was apart of years from now and see it in the context of that time. I was most interested in Gifted Youngins and Criminal at Age 5. Gifted Youngins could go in many different directions in terms of the story being told. Also, I think children in front of a camera is fascinating. There is usually no invisible barrier of self-consciousness with kids and cameras. I would love to explore that idea itself while pursuing a meaningful story. The DACA topic is also of heightened interest me because it is happening now, yet it will effect individual’s futures. It is scary and there all so many opinions surrounding this subject that it would be worth exploring, and really it is worth learning about since our audience is our class. We are students and we are young and we know people, perhaps inadvertently, who are going to be effected by DACA being rescinded. Their futures will be effected one way or another, and their stories are worth knowing.
If I had to add any topic, I would be interested to include a project that focuses on the opioid epidemic in the Lehigh Valley. Opioids are a very serious problem in this area, as well as all over right now. This includes heroin and prescription drugs. Now that medical marijuana legalization has been passed, I feel it is time to bring awareness to the opioid issue people face. 13 people died everyday from a drug overdose in PA in 2016. 45% of drug overdoses in PA in 2016 found heroin present. This is a crisis. It needs attention.