For our short documentary, we have decided to focus on the skaters of Bournemouth. This group was chosen due to the groups that often participate in skating culture the most, that being youths. This is underpinned by UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 10: Reduced Inequalities.
In our documentary, we want to focus on the lives of these people, whose hobby is seen as a social danger and is given no real place to flourish, and despite the high amount of work from the community to lessen this issue, still remains a large issue in Bournemouth especially.
Ageism is a big issue in English society, and as the gap between generations increases further, this is an issue that can only grow worse. It undercuts a lot of other issues too; more and more youths find themselves at the edges of society, unable to gain a foothold in today’s economy, with a shrinking job market that incentivises experience and contacts.
We want to explore this idea via the skater subculture which is predominantly made up of teenagers and young adults, who can provide us a microcosm of how they are treated by society as a whole. Skaters are demonised in culture via it’s poor public image as created through representations in the media, and with the negative stereotypes often associated with them, and as such can provide us an invaluable perspective into inequality in our society.
To this end, we will be taking an in depth view of an individual skater, the struggles he or she faces and has faced to get them to this point, and what the future holds for them considering the current state of affairs.
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