Final Year Project Number 2.

I’ve settled on doing my project about Tattoos and Body Modifications. My first idea is a documentary on body art called ‘THink’. The main idea around it is to educate people on the art form of tattooing and also to break the barrier around the stereotyping that tattooed individuals face. Such issues being, why do people still think of tattooing as being gang related and are thus seen as a bad people. Here is a run down of what I would like to do for the documentary.

1. A day to day life of a tattoo artist
2. Profiling a client
3. Brief introduction to when tattooing became a problem to society
4. Influences of tattoo art in modern culture (Also a profile of a certain brand that made a fortune based off tattoo art)
5. Extreme forms of body modification and the reason behind doing it
6. Tattoo culture and the lifestyle (Speak on catching trend of teenagers getting heavily tatted up)
7. Interviews of a client and a tattoo artist (And their take on the stereotyping as well as reasons behind their tattoos)

Problems I might facing doing the documentary

1. Lack of sources for the origins
2. Being able to find a willing tattoo artist
3. Researching and obtaining footages. (Besides me filming it)
4. Willing clients who allow to be filmed