SPIRITUALITY From a young age we were manipulated into the system of work and drawn from being free to do what we want with peace and harmony. I want to explore how society forces us to follow a particular way of living and how we are so wrapped up in consumption rather than enjoying the values of living and loving. The idea of spirituality inspired me from a good friend of mine who is spiritual herself. She engaged me with her spiritual experiences and attitude towards society. Her views about how society works and manipulates have really intrigued me and i want to find more about how spirituality works against society. Most of us necessarily don't conform to the ways in which Spirituality works. Some may consider a spiritual lifestyle to be weird, exaggerated and dramatic but what people don't understand is how spirituality has transformed peoples lives by giving them a open and positive mindset to life. Focusing on how we should appreciate ourself and the world around us and not the negativity created from society we live in. My aim for this idea is to dig deep into spiritualists life and experience their lifestyle seeing how their view can transforms ours as we are so accustomed to living the way society intended us to. Ideally I want to follow a group of spiritualists and their different spiritual experiences as well as educating and informing the audience about the history and metaphysics of spirituality. It would also be interesting to look into music and spirituality and see how the two merge together. I have managed to contact a poet and a singer who was suggested by my friend of mine. He would be happily filmed himself and said he knows some friends who would like some publicity.   |   Image Copyright GIVE THE BIGGEST SMILE The second idea I came up with is a very personal subject that I wish to explore and understand. This idea relates to families who look after a child fighting the terminal illness, Cancer. The reason why I want to carry out this idea is because my family nursed a son and a brother for two years suffering with liver cancer. Richard unexpectedly received the illness when he was eight years old. The cancer soon spread and was under going chemo and radio therapy to fight the cancer cells spreading through his body. I do not know the full story of my brother Richard as I was born a year after his death. It is a very sensitive subject to talk about with my family. His death has great affected my parents, brother and sister very much. Even though documentaries regarding Cancer have been done before I would like to visit hospitals specialising in treating child cancer patients and spend time with the child and their families. I would like to find a way to make an opportunity or wish come true for them by raising money and creating a charity scheme where by the public donate money to give a child an opportunity they have always wanted. On behalf of my family and other families I want to show how we can make a child happy by making them ignore their illness and enjoy the time they may have left in their life. This approach to the idea may seem cliche but I want the to get the audience interact with families by making a child happy. This idea may seem challenging but I will communicate with ongoing charities who raise money for cancer and see their views on my idea. |
CONFESSIONS OF A CLEANER - INVESTIGATION INTO TOILET HYGIENE A cleaners job seems dull and unappealing to us however the amount of work they put into cleaning up after the public is phenomenal. What strikes me the most about cleanliness in society is the way the public toilets are left by some members of the public. If a toilet is left in a revolting way it is unhygienic and unpleasant for the person using that cubicle. But is this issue down to the cleaners not doing their job properly or people with a lack of pride in society? For this idea I want to investigate into the life of cleaners and here their confessions revealing their day to day challenges. For this particular idea I want to investigate into the subject of public toilet hygiene and find out how hygienic London public toilets are and how we can create new ways of improving hygiene. I think it is important society become more aware of how their unhygienic ways can cause consequences of illnesses. For my main idea I want to follow the life of two or three cleaners and experience their work life and what they do to keep London's public toilets hygienic. I also want to see the communication between the cleaners and members of public to see how they interact with one another. Surveys will be used for the members of the public to gain their view and opinion of cleanliness and how it can be improved. |  |
  | GYM OBSESSED? Are you obsessed with your appearance? A calorie counter? A gym freak? Constant dieting and always finding ways to get the fittest body? Society are guilty for it but the fact is we have become so sucked in and manipulated by the media that we have to find ways to maintain a fit. In most circumstances some individuals go a little bit too far with the fitness regimes. Men feel the need to put artificial substances into their body which rapidly increases muscle growth. These substances are used as steroids and consequently decrease the testosterone male hormone.Doing this can increase health risks out the human body as they are not growing muscle in a natural way. In other cases some women take androgenic anabolic steroids known as AAS either for a sex change, to become manlier, muscle building, thinking they are 'too fat' 'too skinny' 'too small' and some women who are a victims of rape take AAS to protect themselves. In this generation we have become very obsessed with the way we look and I want to investigate why men and women are so obsessive. It is a big concern to many individuals in the UK and I want to follow the lives of a few individuals who have this obsession known as a Dysmorphic disorder and understand they reason why people follow this obsessive lifestyle of the gym. For this idea I want to go to various gyms and understand the extent people take to get a fit body, seeing the diets they go on and how the exercise and dieting is jeopardising their health. However I not only want to inform the audience on how individuals become obsessed with the gym I want to find out the best ways a person can get fit and eat healthy by experimenting with different diet regimes and exercises.
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