Exhibition Project – Discussion of initial idea’s 5th March 2014

2nd week back at college tonight and there was a lot of discussion about our final exhibition.  Talking about things like exhibition name, sponsorship and venue.

The first task was our arranged meet at HQ Gallery for a recce visit.  Because I do site measure-ups for work I was assigned the task of getting measurements for the room.  Which I will then turn into a CAD drawing.

HQ Gallery (PDF)

Back at college we then had tutorials with the lecturer to discuss our proposals.  I brought up the blog page with my initial idea’s and discussed them.  We felt that pin-hole photography might not have much to explore and might get a bit boring.  Sport photography was going to be difficult without being a press photographer.  Fashion was good, but I didn’t really have any further idea’s to push this on.  Time-lapse seems to be favourite.  I enjoyed exploring this for the Pride and Prejudice project and we felt there were a lot of options to push this forward.

Time lapse of crowds and sporting venue’s came up as a possible option.  Alex showed me this video of Hampden Park being raised 6ft in 3 months for the Commonwealth games.  Whilst this was outside of what i’d be able to achieve we discussed the idea of doing a time lapse of a sporting crowd coming into and then out of a venue.  i.e. going from empty seats to full seats.

I have enjoyed doing time lapse and feel there may be some commercial opportunities in the future.  Whilst I have been doing the course I keep noticing bits of time-lapse on the TV.  Just short little bits between scenes.  I’ve noticed it in TOWIE (The wife was watching it).  Bondi Rescue (shots of the beach filling or emptying, sun going and up down).

As well as getting involved with TV I feel this could add interesting shots to a wedding video, guests arriving, or going to and form the bar or dance floor.  Although this would probably need investment in more equipment, camera’s etc.

Another option may be for tradesmen, builders etc. to quickly show the quality of their work, how they can transform an empty space into a house.

As per one of my previous post’s I am concerned about logistics and timing.  Time lapse by it’s nature takes a long time and unless I can leave my camera in a secure location i’m going to have to sit with it for hours, if I can afford it.  I may end up doing a lot of work from my or family’s homes.