ACPP - OPEN BRIEF: April 2019

Why Image and Sound?

When discussing my project progression with my tutor she advises that I look into Edmund Clark's One Day on a Saturday project which has been presented using photographs and overlapped voice recordings, she suggested that it could be a good way for me to present my work rather than submitting standard prints.

Link to Edmund Clark's One Day on a Saturday project: https://www.edmundclark.com/works/section-4-part-20-day-saturday/#1

After watching the 2 minute extract of this work I decided that not only was I going to create a film using Image and Sound but I will also be submitting the album with all of the photographs that my uncle took throughout this project alongside it. The reason I have chosen to do this is so that people can choose to watch them as a film or they can choose to look through the book and just listen to the recordings of different people such as myself, my family and members of staff talk about our relationships with my Uncle Mark as well as fun stories and how we think that he has become more independent through the years.

The only thing that I didn't particularly enjoy about Edmund Clark's work was his choice to overlap the voices, I found it very difficult to focus on what each person was saying so for me it was very distracting and disorientating. In my film I will experiment with small overlaps to avoid any awkward silences but I plan to keep all of the voices separate so that you can clearly hear each individual persons opinion without any distractions. My reason for doing this is because of the nature of the work, I feel that every opinion has a right to be heard because every opinion matters, especially for a subject as important as this one, but in order to really grab peoples attention and make them listen it has to be singular voices which, for me, will make the film more powerful.

Final Diary Entry and Polaroids

My Final Diary Entry

Polaroids From The Day

Uncle Mark

Shane - a member of staff

A member of staff

Samantha - a member of staff

Cardboard cut out of Daniel O'Donnell

and Uncle Mark

DVD rack #1

DVD rack #2

DVD rack #3

DVD rack #4

A signed Daniel O'Donnell poster on

a wardrobe

Part of the office

Uncle Mark on the swing #1

Uncle Mark under the gazebo

Uncle Mark on the swing #2

The black door

A bench and the house

Uncle Mark in front of the back door

Uncle Mark on the garden swing chair

The Garden

Shane and Uncle Mark watering

the plants

The Greenhouse Plants

Uncle Mark raking the garden

Nicola - a member of staff

Uncle Marks folder

Uncle Mark holding his folder

CD boxes on a computer screen

Uncle Mark singing #1

Uncle Mark singing #2

Shane - a member of staff sitting

in the office

The front gates, a house and a

blossom tree

Nicola's car #1

Nicola's car #2

Uncle Mark and Me

Final Photoshoot Contact Sheet

This is my final photoshoot at my uncle Mark's house. I pretty much produced a shoot that was a combination of my first photoshoot and my second one, I started by taking some photographs of my uncle mark making us a cup of tea and I photographed a conversation that he was having with Paul to highlight their relationship. For the rest of the shoot I focused on showing the presence of the photographer (my uncle) whilst he produced his own photographs. I personally feel that the relationship between the photographer and his subject is key to creating a rewarding set of work. Throughout this shoot I noticed an interesting change in the way that my uncle photographed things, I remember being in the greenhouse that they've got in their garden and I was photographing him with the camera and just before he took the photograph he changed his mind and decided to change the angle in which he took the picture and he also decided to move closer to his subject, it was really lovely to see him thinking about how he wanted the final photograph to look, it shows that his skills in photography have progressed and it also shows that he really enjoys the process of polaroid photography.