I have decided to do my Article/Project in in feature form with suitable pictures following throughout to help make the story an engaging read. I’ll incorporate portrait photos with close-ups while experimenting with focus.
I’ve decided to do my article on what it means to head into a ‘cashless society’. The topic is present and will affect everyone in a large way or small way, so it makes for a relevant peice of journalism. As a sports journalist, I wanted to steer away from a typical football stories as I believe it wouldn’t have challenged my ability as a journalist. Creating a peice of journalism around a cashless society gave me an oppotunity to research a topic I was unfamiliar with and test my writing skills along side the creative way in which I would of had to take relevant pictures.
Areas where I ran into trouble were when I was trying to get access into shops in order to take pictures of tills etc. Some places were ok like NatWest. Other places were more reluctant to allow me to get any footage. I way i tried to overcome this was by using my place of work – IF UP NORTH – in order to attempt to take some pictures.
After choosing the topic and finding the writing was in my opinion quite interresting, it was difficult to make the pictures match the same energy as there was little i could do with a picture of a till. I had to get creative in order to interrestingly tell the story through images.
I wanted to tell a story which informed those of the direction the UK and entire world may be heading in the near future, I beleive in this story my job was to tell the reader the disadvantages and advantages of what a chashless society may look like for those who may be unaware. I was going to do extensive research in order to back up my points with statistics. I wanted to talk to business owners to understand how it may be affecting them and what thier stance on it is. furthermore, talking to those from a young generation and much older generation would provide my article with balalced view points and give the reader an understanding of how a cashless society may affect people differently.
https://photographicjournalism.com/author/dtandy2343/ Final Article, Currency of the future: Evolution of a cashless society.
Photographic Journalism 