Progressing with the project.
Assignment Three saw me delve into the world of device usage and to see how common it is in today's society to be using devices continuously. I initially looked at others, and my own family, while I was going about my daily business, to see how much device usage we see at home and out and about, by both family and the general public.
My tutor and I discussed the last assignment and I discussed that my own family, especially my husband, spend a lot of time on our own devices. With my tutor commenting that my husband's character had the potential to carry a series on his own, I agreed with this and felt it was unnecessary to go out looking for device usage by people on the street when I have more than enough material in my own home. With regards to my husbands, my children's and even my own, usage; I felt it was important to attempt to convey time as an important factor. I was inspired by Suite Venitienne by Sophie Calle and was interested in the inclusion of text as a diary format. This is something that I felt would work in my own project and decided to embark on documenting not only photographs of my husband and family on devices, but also noting a diary form of text to accompany the images. By including dates and times to correspond with each images or set of images, the viewer can get a more thorough insight into just how much time is spent on devices within my home.
Another area I discussed with my tutor was whether it was important what my husband was actually doing or looking at while on his devices. And whether or not it was important. Personally, I think there is more of a mystery around the project, as viewers, if we don't know. It keeps us guessing. And also makes us think, while we look at the photos as a sequence, what exactly takes so long to be on a device so long. In my notes, I have made suggestions about what I think my husband is doing on his device at the time on occasions, but I don't feel it is necessary and I wonder whether it needs to be included or not.
Assignment Submission.
For the assignment submission, I have included both the text and the images. As opposed to including the entire log; I have included a two week time frame from November 2016 to keep the series in a particular set time. The series starts from the first of the month. The daily text is first and is followed by the image(s) that correspond to that day. Then the next day's text followed by it's corresponding images, etc. It is important for me to keep the text and images together for a particular day and to continue in date sequence to keep it as a diary format. Some days have just text, some days have just images but the majority of dates have both text and images to accompany them. Also, I have included emoji's in my text, which are a big factor in communicating through devices nowadays, but they do not show on the documents below (shown as a ?) but will be present for the final project.
Final thoughts.
Looking at the volume of photographs that I have for the two weeks submitted, I cant help but think there might be too many. I feel I should think about the volume of photographs submitted for each daily text. Also, I am wondering whether the photographs should be limited to solely of my husband or whether I continue to include my children and my close family and friends.
I have thought about how I would like to present the final project and am leaning more towards a book. The entire project has been captured on my mobile phone and so I would love if there were some way for me to present it in the same way. I'm not sure how I could do that. The book idea also draws inspiration from Sophie Calle but also because of the fact it is recorded as a diary, and diaries tend to be thought of as in book form. It is something I will have to discuss further with my tutor now that we are heading toward the final project.
* I have decided to produce a sample photo book of this assignment to submit for assessment as it will give me an insight into how the final project could look in book format, but obviously would be much larger.
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