After a lot of re-thinking, trying to re-model my project as I was so worried about people not liking it, I have decided to stick with my original idea of ‘Surveillance’ as I realised the main reason I wanted to change was because I was paranoid that people would not like it and would think it was boring, however I realised that I need to think for myself and not worry about what others think. So this is lesson number 1 for year 3!!!
Having our first tutorial really helped me to talk through my idea and get a good perspective, it also helped me feel a lot more positive about it. Jon gave me a lot of great people to look at including Stacey Dooley and her work around the Molka (spy camera) issues they have in Korea, Stephen Gill and his work with the wildlife cameras and Kate Peters who has a sort of a voyeurism aesthetic to her work.
I now have a much clearer view of what I would like to get out of this project, and after a fair amount of discussion, I am very interested in all of the weird stuff people hide cameras into. I have sketched a couple of first hand ideas that I had from this tutorial which are shown below.
I had this idea of creating a sort of catalogue of the items with an image of what that item has take next to it, as looking through this web pages where they are selling this sort of material made me feel very uneasy as these people are selling these cameras not necessarily knowing what they may be used for.