Ideas

For the project I'm in a group of three but our plan was to go home and each come up with an idea or several and then tomorrow to share and discuss them after our lecture and pick one. I'll report back on what happens on that front.

My ideas would be slightly different if it was to be filmed, but as we are doing still images that will be made into a video, I tried to think more in terms of photography and a sequence or a related theme that could be turned into something poetic:-

1) Man's impact on transitional spaces:- This could be looking at graffiti, or notes, or even things like chewing gum on the floor. It could also be things that people leave behind. Newspapers and magazines left on buses or trains as well as litter and anything else. I've seen wallets, jackets, books and more left behind in transitional spaces.

2) Transitional spaces reflecting emotions:- The journey of still images would follow a person (male or female?) on their journey to somewhere. It will be a journey that uses varying transitional spaces and the purpose of their journey is to meet somebody. They have a letter from someone important to them that at first they don't want to open but gradually begin reading and it changes their mood (idea is for the worse but up for discussion) and this is reflected in the transitional spaces which begin darker, more scruffy and run down until they end up somewhere abandoned or severely run down.

3) The differences in transitional spaces:- The way that for us electrical lines aren't a transitional space and are something which provides a service. Yet for birds they are something to sit and rest on. So my idea would be to look at the alternative transitional spaces. Humans also find them and it could be interesting to look at places that wouldn't normally be considered this.

The inspiration for this came from a walk and seeing birds sat around. My next job is to draw up some thumbnails for the above ideas (and scan them in) and discuss my ideas and see what my group have come up with and come to an agreement.