jjamesbankss

A podcast about using hobbies as a form of escapism. "Voiceover: In today's 21st century society, most, if not all people have some form of hobby which they practice on a daily basis. But why? Is it purely recreational, or is there a much deeper reason that is ignored by society, or even by ourselves? Is there a reason that particular people are drawn towards the practice of certain activities, or is it purely coincidental? Dean: I'm Dean robinson, and my hobby is gaming Rachael: I am rachael, and my hobby is pretty making music which I do in my room and occasionally making videos and photoshopping things as well. Voiceover: First of all, I decided to look at when it was in the subject's lives that they first began to get into their particular hobbies. Was it something they developed as children, or was it more of a case of discovering these things as young adults? I also decided to investigate what it was specifically that the individuals loved about their hobbies. What was it that attracted to such specific activities? Was it simply that they were just genetically programmed to enjoy such things, or was it something else? Dean: For most of my life I think. There's been a lot of the time whenever I was younger I used to go down to one of my mates house, he had an N64, I never had one, which,which was a real bummer to me back then because it was one of the prominent game consoles of the time. So many good games on it and it was one of the main reasons that me and him were good buddies, we hung out a lot and played “Goldeneye”, “Super Smash Brothers Brawl”, games like that. It was awesome. Rachael: Pretty much throughout my teens, I first got photoshop when I was like thirteen and I just started teaching myself how to edit things from there and.. um music kind of came along when I was about fifteen when I first got a microkorg and that enabled me to do a lot more than I had done before and video's much more recent, that's just since I got a 550D at the start of term and I just like messing around with that and making little videos basically.” Dean: I think it's a mixture of being immersed in a world where your real life self isn't really that relevant anymore. You're in there, you're taking the role of someone else, you're becoming the person, you're in the thick of the action. Just really, really like it. Rachael: they enable me to like be creative because I just find that's like a really good way of getting my mind off things that are maybe like bugging me or weighing me down a bit and it's just nice to not think about that. Voiceover: After hearing slight hints that the subjects had been using their hobbies as a method of escapism I decided to investigate further, and to try and find out if this was the deep rooted reason behind their choice of hobby. Dean: I kind of feel that it's a escape from my normal everyday life, I can get immersed in a different role take up things, do things that i'd never have a chance to do, as I am now. That's just what I feel. Rachael: I think I'm just naturally gravitated towards more creative outputs, because, not particularly ever been into sport at all, like, quite the opposite so, anything creative kind of grabs my eye easily. music changes Dean: yeah it definitely is, I tend to play a lot of RPG's like role playing games, that's where like, they're set in fantasy worlds and stuff, you take on a characters role, you try to become the character, you act out as that character would, and I just feel like it's so immersive, it just takes away from how you're feeling at the minute, how, eh life is reflecting on you and you can just go and express yourself in any way shape or form.” music reverts back Rachael: Yeah, I'd say that's definitely true 'cause I mean when I'm at uni I hardly actually get time to do those things but when I do it I enjoy it a lot more. For example over summer, because we had such a long summer I spent so much ti