Assignment Five Plan

After my previous brainstorming sessions, I have settled on a theme: The City Coming to Life. This theme ties together a few separate ideas I had, namely:

- A city.
- Light changing over the course of the day.
- A location changing over the course of the day.

I then addressed the various issues flagged up by tutors in other people's submissions:

- What kind of magazine.
- One location (a city).
- It's a subtheme (a city changing over the course of night into morning) of a major theme (Birmingham).
- I can have a variety of images, both thematically (desolate locations becoming lively) and aesthetically (the way the light changes the appearance of the location).
- I'll have the opportunity to photograph locations empty, and also teeming with people.
- There's a strong narrative or 'story' to tell.
- The images will be able to form a strong set.
- Opportunities to see people out of the 'ordinary' - people awake and working when most people are asleep.
- I am emotionally engaged with the subject of empty spaces - I have previously undertaken personal projects in abandoned buildings, and have a keen interest in seeing places how they aren't normally seen.

I have also compared my idea to the requirements of the brief:

To illustrate a story for a magazine  - I envision my project could appear in any kind of 'Birmingham-centric' publication as an interest story, or perhaps as an article on media such as 'LoveBrum'.

A clear rationale underlying your narrative. - I have a clear story that I'm trying to tell - showing the viewer familiar locations that appear in an unfamiliar way.

Visually and/or intellectually stimulating images. - I envision visually stimulating images will be created due to the changing light on the urban landscape, with the intellectual stimulation coming from the juxtaposition of normally hectic/bustling locations lying empty, and/or vice-versa.

Image Ideas.

Broad Street - Busy at 4am.
New Street - Empty.
Have an hourly timeline, each page representing an hour.
New street station.
Light on selfridges.
Looking down at St Martins.
Centenary square.
Frankfurt market.
Workmen.
Police/Ambulance


UPDATE: After trying out this idea, I have now abandoned it. More brainstorming to follow!