Proposal and schedual

The theme I have chosen is Self-Harm because this is one of the main things that people do such as teenagers, however i have found out that 13% of young people try to hurt themselves on purpose at some point between the ages 11 and 16 but the actual figure could be much higher. Also when i was researching Self-Harm i found out that in 2014 figures were published suggesting that a 70% increase in 10-14 years olds attending A&E for self-harm related reasons over 2 years.
I will be going to use my photography skills to use in this project and i will also going to be using Adobe Photoshop to create my work and i will also be going to use the internet to get a font that will fit my subject from http://www.dafont.com/

I want my work to look professional and to actually have an affect on people and to help them stop. For example i will put a picture of someones arm after they have been cutting so you know what it looks like you are the person in there point of view so they know what it will look like from there view. 

On the poster i will have a slogan saying 'We all have scars. We all have stories' and i will find a good dafont font that looks like someones hand writing.

I will be going to do secondary and primary research so i will be going to make a questionnaire on surveymonkey.co.uk and for my secondary research i will be going to use the internet and find out facts about self harm and why people do it and what sort of age group it affects more.

I will be going to present my final product as a poster and i will be going to present it to the class and explain why i have done certain things on the poster.

Self-Harm- secondary research

On Google i searched for Self-Harm and i found this really good website that describes exactly what Self-Harm is: https://www.selfharm.co.uk/get/facts/what_is_self-harm

The phrase ‘self-harm’ is used to describe a wide range of behaviors. Self-harm is often understood to be a physical response to an emotional pain of some kind, and can be very addictive.
Some of the things people do are quite well known:

• Cutting
• Burning
• Pinching
• Abusing drugs
• Abusing alcohol
• Eating disorder 

Everyone has accidents resulting in cuts and bruises but Self-Harm is where you do it to yourself on purpose trying to harm yourself by using an object or parts of your body. eg: Pinching, Scratching and biting. 

Why people Self-Harm:

• Anger
• Distress
• Fear
• Worry
• Depression
• Low self-esteem
• Bullying
• Self-confidence
• Self-punishment
• Past problems
• Mentally stable 
• Relationship problems
• Loneliness

Around 13% of young people may try to hurt themselves on purpose at some point between the ages of 11 and 16, but the actual figure could be much higher.

In 2014, figures were published suggesting a 70% increase in 10-14 year olds attending A&E for self-harm related reasons over the preceding 2 years.

Girls are thought to be more likely to self-harm than boys, but this could be because boys are more likely to engage in behaviours such as punching a wall, which isn't always recognised as self-harm or doesn’t come to the attention of hospitals. In reality self-harm doesn't happen to one type of person, it can't be predicted and scarily, we don't really know how many people are going through it.

How i will create my image:

I will use special effects makeup to crate some scars onto someones arm and then i will have to get some fake blood and then i would have to use a small paint brush to add the fake blood to the fake scars so it then looks like they have cut there wrists.

Ideas from other peoples pictures:

https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/self--harm

I have chose this as one of my images that have inspired me because its suggesting that we have all done things that we have wished we had never done and we still have the scars to remind us of them and they will never go away and that behind every scar there is a different story how it happened? Who did it? and why?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/9d/b4/ce/9db4cecc5baefac6d29221ce0f54c8dc.jpg

I have chose this image because it is a good example of why it happens such as  I have chose this image because its a good example of why people self harm, because they get bullied and called names that hurt them and they take them all personally and start to believe them and then everyone around you starts saying them so it feels like they are all against you and that you haven't got anyone there for you so you wouldn't dare tell anyone whats happening. 

http://www.naimamohamed.com/self-harm-why-people-do-it/

I have also chose this image because it inspires me with how many people do actually cut and they say there fine because they dont want to let anyone know that they do it because they'd be worried about what they think and how they will react. Also i really like this photo because it shows two images that tell very different story's behind them and that you shouldn't hide them and for them to know that there is people that they can talk to without being there in person such as over the internet so they are not worried if someone see's them. 

Animal Rights - other research on different things

For:

Human beings and adult mammals have rights because they are both 'subjects-of-a-life'.

This means that:

• They have similar levels of biological complexity
• They are conscious and aware that they exist
• They know what is happening to them
• They prefer some things and dislike others
• They make conscious choices
• They live in such a way as to give themselves the best quality of life
• They plan their lives to some extent
• The quality and length of their life matters to them
• Accepting the doctrine of animal rights means:
  ·         No experiments on animals
  ·         No breeding and killing animals for food or clothes or medicine
  ·         No use of animals for hard labour
  ·         No selective breeding for any reason other than the benefit of the animal
  ·         No hunting
  ·         No zoos or use of animals in entertainment

Against: 

• Animals don't think
• Animals are not really conscious
• Animals were put on earth to serve human beings
• Animals don't have souls
• Animals don't behave morally
• Animals are not members of the 'moral community'
• Animals lack the capacity for free moral judgment 
• Animals don't think

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