Proposal

Proposal

Title: Breaking the mould

Idea

My idea is to create a documentary on how pole fitness has helped me. I am going to focus on how I got into pole fitness, where I am today and how it has helped me with my injury.

Developing the idea

Within this documentary I am going to have a few people from the pole studio and also me. The story will be based on me and how I came into pole with a serious back injury and not building myself up to it. The others that will be included in this will be my mum Joanne, Leah, Lisa and Carla.

My mum has been doing pole for abut 4 ½ years and has been teach for about 2 months. I am almost at the same stage/ability as her within pole. I am able to do most of the moves and tricks that she is able to do.

 Leah is an X-Pole representative. X-Pole is the most well known pole and pole Accessories Company within the industry. They also hold competitons and enter competitions around the world. Leah is a teacher at the Cardiff Pole Twisters Studio and has been for about 5 years and has been doing pole for a total of about 7 years.

Carla and Lisa are the owners of Pole Twisters in both Cardiff and Barry. They have both been doing pole for about 10 years. They have had the Cardiff Studio for about 4 years and the Barry Studio for about 6 months. Before they had these studios Lisa, Carla and Leah used to teach a small group of people Monday – Friday above Passion in Cardiff. When they had enough money and students they decided that they would open their own studio. About 2 years ago they wanted to open a second. They started fund raising and 6 months ago they finally opened their second studio.

Also within this documentary I will be including images of my scans, me in hospital when having treatment, interviews, routines and me teaching.

Characters

Me

The reason I am in this documentary is because I am basing the whole thing around me. I am going to be saying how I had 2 years out of any kind of sport and fitness exercise apart from my physio and then went straight into pole a year ago without building myself up toward it. From when I started pole just over a year ago to today I believe that I have improved massively with my strength and health. It has helped me with my recovery whereas my physio didn’t really do a lot for me. I was still in so much pain and struggled to get through the day when I was having a bad day. Although I will never be fully recovered as well as the treatment I received in hospital I believe that pole has had a huge part to play. If I decided that I no longer wanted to do pole or any other fitness activity I would be back the old way when I was in agony every single day. Pole has given me a massive amount of strength in such a short space of time. Before starting pole I was unable to simple things such as doing just 1 ait up. After 3 months of starting I was able to do about 20. To my family and me this was a huge improvement and from there on I have continued to progress. I believe that if I had carried on with just my physio alone I would not be at the stage I’m at today.

Mum

The reason I am including my mum is to interview her and to get her to say how much she has seen me progress from the day I found out about my injury to today.  My mum also has some troubles with her back so knows the difficulties that I go through not only just at pole but also outside pole. I am now at the same level as my mum at pole so we are able to give eachother help and advice. There are moves that she can do that I can and vice versa.

Leah

Leah has been teaching me for about 6-8 months as my stretch and flax and also my mixed ability teacher and in about 2/3 weeks will be my tricks teacher. I am including Leah, as I am able to show some of her routines from competitions that she has done and also how she has seen me progress these past couple of months. Another reason I am including her is because I would love to be able to do the things that she does within the pole industry such as competitions, representing and teaching.

Approach

When interviewing people I will be taking the approach of Griesonion mode. I am taking this approach because I believe that it shows that the person being interviewed isn’t being pressured into saying something. It shows a more balanced of things.

Access

I am able to get access to all the facilities and people that I need and want to. I have gained permission to record and interview the people that I want as well as gaining permission to record in the places I want including places like the Cardiff Pole Twisters Studio.

Final sum up

 I believe that by doing this documentary it will change peoples perspective on pole fitness and show them what pole fitness actually is. Most people believe/assume that pole dancing fitness is stripping in nightclubs. People fitness is based on building up strength and flexibility whilst learning new moves and tricks as well as helping others and enjoying yourself in a different form of exercise. Pole fitness is becoming an increasingly popular sport that a lot of people are now taking up as a hobby.