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 parameters about what is causing this latent infantalized cultures that that is prominent in people in their early 20s. Has this generation been babied for too long therefore divorcing them from the world? Or is this later stage of development just a response to the harsh economic climate that waits ahead? Or is this delayed start to their lives even a bad thing at all?
In my film I will interview people of different ages to determine their take on this subject. 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 publicly at 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 discover why people are reaching benchmarks in life later and what this means for the future.
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