grant proposal...

Alright I think that I am ready to practice writing my proposal for my grant…

My name is Michelle Macyk, I am a senior at Stony Brook University. I am currently working on a documentary film about the new meaning of age. They say that 40 is the new 30 and if that is true, is 22 the new 12? Through my documentary I intend on uncovering the reasons behind this decrease in aging.

In my film I will interview someone who is about 75 years old, 50 years old, and 25 years old. I would like to compare their past and future hopes in this documentary. Through these interviews I hope to show how times have changed and what this later aging means for younger generations.

The documentary will be shown as a publicly ay Monkeytown in New York City. I also intend on creating three different surveys at surveymonkey.com. I will make one for people ages 20-35, 40-50, and 55+ asking them about where they are in life at their age. This will help be determine the ratio of age to career choices, family choices, and possible ages of retirement.

I intend on spending $5,000 on this project. Costs include a new camera, editing software (Final Cut Pro), lighting, and interviewing equipment. I feel that this documentary will expose a new cultural definition of age. It will provide examples of what age meant at the past and what it means now. I hope that with your help I will be able to prove my thesis which is that age should not be a constraint and that people can do anything at any age.