The document outlines the development of a documentary idea about skateboarding. The filmmaker wants to investigate the stereotype that skateboarding is antisocial by presenting it as a social community. Secondary research found the stereotype often applies to young skaters. The history of skateboarding in the 1990s punk movement may have created the antisocial image. Focus groups provided feedback on including participant-led footage, public interviews, and a hip hop soundtrack. The goal is to inform viewers of the positives of skateboarding and its social nature.

1. #Skatelife

2. How did my idea start
• My idea came from my passion for
Skateboarding, I thought it was unfair to label
Skateboarding as antisocial so I wanted to find
out where this view comes from and whether it is
true or not. I wanted to present Skateboarding as
a community of individuals and hopefully
disprove the idea that all skateboarders are
antisocial. The purpose of this documentary is to
inform people of the positives of skateboarding
and how it is very social.

3. Development of idea
• During my secondary research I found many
articles where they argued it is “uncool” to skate
past a certain age suggesting the antisocial
stereotype is applied to mostly young skaters.
• Furthermore Some of the students I interviewed
said that there was not a clear research question
as I switched between talking about the
community of skaters and whether it was
antisocial. This helped me clarify that I was in fact
investigating if the sport is antisocial through the
observation of the community.

4. History of skateboarding
• Skateboarding grew in popularity during the
1990s with the punk movement, this new
form of Street Skateboarding is what I think
created the stereotype of the antisocial
skateboarder.
• I wanted to highlight this in my documentary
that recently many Skateboarders have their
own style and don’t follow the punk
movement.

5. Research
I wanted to find out from my focus group what
kind of conventions they wanted to see. For
example many of them wanted it to be a
participant lead documentary and all of them
wanted to see Voxpops with the public as well as
interviews with Skaters. Also most people wanted
to hear modern house or dance music.
However in my Questionaire more people wanted
Hip Hop than Dance music so I’m going to use Hip
Hop instead.

6. Distribution