After the assessment, I thought about what I wanted to do for the negotiated project and decided that I wanted to keep going with this project but move it forward. So I started to think about making a 3-4 minute video and perhaps a set of stills to accompany them.
Thinking about what I could do for the stills side, I thought about photos from the journeys themselves. The places, perhaps people. However, i thought that almost seemed too obvious and so I got thinking about other options.
I've previously looked at Stephen Shore (above image) and how he presented his images from a journey. He collected items from the journey and put them on a page. On the journeys I'm making for this project I collect a lot of things, tickets, receipts, bottles, sweets, anything really and decided that perhaps a studio style shoot of laying all the items out would be a good thing.
It would be something different to the video and perhaps personalise it and add another element to it. Rather than just seeing a video where you don't really see any people or hear any human voices, you'd be seeing items and know a bit more about the person or about what happened on that journey.
I did a very rough example image for one of the journeys I shot when I went to Blackpool. This one was shot on my bed in poor light conditions rather than at a studio like i'd prefer, but it gives the general idea of what i want to achieve. I tried one where everything was just thrown on top of each other and very messily done, but decided that each item layed out next to each other worked much better.
The next oppurtunity I'll get to shoot video will be on the 23rd as I'm not driving and so I'm going to start to think about that in more detail now.
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