Here is my sandbox story.
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Story proposal:
I am thinking of doing a story about the hiking trails in Orono, especially those south of UMaine, and my relationship to them in light of having done high school sports in the area. When I did cross country and track in high school, many of our practices intersected or revolved around these trails; they held an important place in some of the most memorable and enjoyable times of my life. Today, I rarely but occasionally still visit them on walks and runs, especially to reminisce about those times and to reconnect with the largely unchanged scenes.
The best narrative I can think of right now is the contrast, especially emotional and physiological, between how a college student/worker/dogwalker/driver might think of these spaces and how a training athlete would. I could frame this through the change I’ve experienced in my life from one to the other.
For this project’s media, I will likely use mostly photos of the pertinent locations. I have some relevant photos from back in early Project 1, when I explored one of these trails as an option for the Photo Story. However, the bulk of my media will probably be new photos from this time of year in order to maintain consistency with the areas I will only be starting to capture now. Still, I might consider parlaying this discrepancy in the early photos to illustrate a contrast in some part of the story.
Most of my research will just be looking online and asking friends (mostly people I know from school who also ran these trails) about the locations I’m interested in, the general prevalence of trails around Orono, and whether I’ve forgotten any that I was familiar with in the past.