When writing my independent project, I had a faint idea of what I wanted to write about. I wanted to do something that dealt with the mental effects of a prisoner while being on the Death Penalty. That was already a used idea so I tried to look at the differences it had with the different age groups. For example: Whether a prisoner at the age of 20 would become mentally unstable faster, would develop depression, and all the other mental illnesses, faster than a prisoner who was older.
It was hard at first. I wanted to do a diary entry for my personal view. I wanted to get inside the head of the prisoner and get a feel of what they were going through. I found a video which showed me what prisoners were like when they were isolated. It gave me a glimpse of what a prisoner had to go through and it was quite shocking.
From the previous project, dealing with the Death Penalty as well, I had a faint idea of what conditions were like while being in prisoner. But to get a video that looked at what happened and to see a person act, while in those certain situations, it gives a very vivid image of how to portray my character.
To find situations and case studies that stated the age differences was very hard. I looked in many books and online sources and I could only find a handful. But this was a topic that I wanted to do so I decided to stick with it, no matter how hard it was.
If I had the chance to do this project again, I would still be looking at the same focus, but I would have liked to have found some more videos and tv shows (since there are shows that show these kinds of things) which I think would have helped me more to develop my ideas.
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