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Elephant Project

I’ve realised that I’ve haven’t posted anything about Elephant, so thought I’d write a little quick overview of what I did for the project.

My film was shot mostly inside lift number 6 in elephant and castle underground station. I focussed the camera on individuals as they made their way up or down. I opted to use video this time rather than stills, mainly because it helped to increase the sense of waiting and the passage of time. Also with video, I could capture the slight gestures or movements by the passengers that really gave away their discomfort of riding that lift.

In total the film runs for about 6 minutes before it repeats. 6 minutes from about 10 hours spent in that lift…mmm good ratio. It would be quite impressive for anyone actually to sit through the whole 6 minutes without breaking out into a cold sweat. For the privilege of filming in the Underground, I had to hand over 30 quid to TFL for an official looking pass. Only got shouted at a few times. The lift only broke down twice while I was in there. Now I mostly take the stairs.

I’ll do my best to try and upload the film onto this blog…

Major Project

After thinking long and hard about the grandfather project, it’s starting to look unjustifiable to me at this stage to travel to both inner mongolia and egypt to take pictures of sand…! I’ve decided instead to focus on the parallel rural communities they both lived in before they were swept away to these arid battlefields. So it’s looking like Japan and Devon is on the agenda for the summer. Will carry on brainstorming…