Preface

The Freestyle Documentary was one of the most challenging projects I have ever done. When it comes to design, I am a perfectionist; if the littlest thing is off, it can take me hours to regain my focus. For this project, I didn’t have time to be a perfectionist. I had to find a subject in our community, whether it be a person, place, or thing, research it, interview people related to it, take photographs, and synthesize all of these parts into a final product in Adobe InDesign. I learned so much by exploring my central question: How did the influence of 1960s rock music change the social and political climate of our nation? The 60s were a time of opposition and protest, something my generation still carries with us through our similar defiance and hunger for change. I did many revisions of the English paper, and I am very proud of how this project turned out.