Minutes 5/11/09

1 Clarify final idea

2 Go out and find location

3 Take photographs of location

4 Decide on how many cameras to use

5 What kind of distraction to use

6 How will final piece be displayed

7 Arrange a time and day to go out and take the photographs

The group met to discuss ideas from the previous week, and we decided to go with Chris's idea of fixed cameras photographing people to see if they would react to a distraction or not.

We then decided to go and look at a couple of locations, the first one being the crossroads by the Cornerhouse. After looking at the location we decided that it would be technically too complicated a site, as we would need four cameras and there was far to much traffic interfering with the camera positions.With the time alloted to do the project we thought that this was an unmanagable task, so it was decided that we would move on and look at St. Peters Square

farther down Oxford Road

After looking around the square, James pointed out an arcade that naturally channelled people through it, exactly what we were looking for, as this meant we would only need two cameras, one at each end of the arcade.

So by adding a distraction, in the form of a sign we could then photograph them either aknowledging the sign or disregaring it.

The photographs would then be processed in the post-production stage, this would involve them being downloaded into a computer and stitched together into a slide-show presentation.It was suggested that maybe three or four continious set of images would be used at the same time. This obviously is still at the stage were the final piece may change slightly, once the photographs have been processed and we are able to look at them and then decide fully on the best way to present them.

Not Able To Make Tomorrow

Hi all,

Unfortunately I will not be able to make it tomorrow as I have a cold and for the sake of the 'A Team' health, will keep it to myself. I will be in next Thursday so keep me posted.

Natalie in her email posting raised an important consideration with respect to 'ethical guidelines that we need to investigate/follow for filming in a public space?' From a legal standpoint we are within our rights to film/photograph people/places in public spaces, in a quote attributed to David Miliband 'There is no legal restriction on photography in public places, and there is no presumption of privacy for individuals in a public place.' would seem to confirm this (http://curly15.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/miliband-on-photography/). However Natalie's concern regards ethics which is a horse of quite a different colour, I propose that at a future group meeting we discuss ethical,legal and commercial considerations in the context of an art project, which interacts both with public spaces and the users of that space. As I will be missing tomorrow I will research this area and post onto the blog what I find, these findings can be evidenced within our reflective logs.

From a practical consideration I have an SLR Digital Camera with a 70/300 lens, for those not camera savvy the lens has the capacity to zoom in from quite a distance. I also have a digital cam-corder and a digital recorder. I would be happy to loan this to members of the group if required.

If you film/photograph tomorrow 'take care out their'.

Dave

hi to all 'A' teamers,

Are we running with the idea of photographing people to see if they react in a specific way or is this still to be confirmed at the next meeting on Thursday?. I thought the meeting last week generated a lot of good ideas, and everyone brought to the table one or more ideas that could easily be considered for the project. This week we should decide upon an idea and start to organize and plan what we need to do to execute it, then it's all systems go.(we hope)

Hello!

Hi all,

i've got a computer for now, so i'm just logging in, don't want everyone thinking i'm scyving off!  has anybody had any more ideas or developed/changed any ideas they had?