Recycled art🏄🏼‍♂️

Researching a specific media niche isn’t necessarily easy. In fact, there are multiple components that come into play when researching the reactions and effectiveness of said niches. When looking into my own media niches, I find that I can’t pinpoint a specific one. Instead I find that I have multiple media niches that I am apart of. Two major ones that tie together nicely is the media niche of ‘video’ and ‘creating’. With platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and instagram we are provided daily access to content that fit these media niches that we have created for ourselves through ‘For you pages’. For me, I tend to lean more towards videos and creators who demonstrate their talents through art and creating whether it be via mandalas or satisfying videos, and also through the way people express things through film (a key love of mine). So, as a research project I have decided to create a page on various popular media platforms where I can share my own media niche such as video and creating by showing off my surfboard art. But, we’ll come back to this.

With any research project, it’s important to have a clear agenda or aim. Such as the persona and the audience, which can go hand in hand. The persona in any case can be the audience or ‘fans’ of something, not necessarily creators within these media niches. I’m even part of this ‘persona’ as an audience and fan of content creators and their work. Where as content creators are another persona. The ones behind the camera and behind the art. Not all show their faces, and don’t really need to because their passion and objective lies in the art itself. But what is known about these audiences and what is not? Well that is what I want to include in my research. What we know is that this audience shares a common interest in art and creating whether we are artists ourselves or just find calmness and admiration for those who are sharing their talents and tips. But what isn’t known is why we feel this way about this content and why we keep coming back? Why do I spend hours and hours watching someone draw mandala? Why do I spend money on colouring in books of these mandalas? Well, that is what I’d like to find out somewhere along this journey.