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Visibility
Cameras, platforms and audiences shape how risk is represented.
Multimedia Documentary
Falling for Fame
Myth or Reality in Modern BASE Jumping?
A scrollytelling documentary about social media, sponsorship, risk-taking, safety culture and athlete identity in contemporary BASE jumping.
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What happens when risk becomes visible?
BASE jumping has always involved exposure. But digital visibility changes how moments are prepared, performed, shared and remembered.
Core tensions
Three forces shape the story before the jump.
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Risk
The line between mastery and consequence is narrow.
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Safety Culture
Experience, mentoring and community norms influence decisions before the exit.
Five athletes. Five perspectives.
The documentary follows athletes whose experiences reveal different relationships to visibility, craft, community and consequence.
Built on research, interviews and field observation.
The project connects cinematic storytelling with a qualitative research process.
- Literature review
- Field access
- Interviews
- Participant observation
- Photo elicitation
- Thematic analysis
Begin with the sport.
Understand the environment, the equipment and the risks before entering the stories of the athletes.
About the Sport