Contextual Report
A more creative type of document than the standard dissertation model, mine takes the form of an archived collection of documents relating to the final (unmade) film of director John Francis Shade.
Photos scouting locations, fragments of scripts, letters, finances, maps, etc. The creation of a believable, functioning narrative around the work.
The artefacts need to be ordered in a logical way (same sites and media together?) whilst keeping up a pace and tempo of narrative (suggested, implied). Hopefully the aesthetic style, along with the content and framing of images in a deliberately sparse manner will help to maintain a consistency and allow the reader to become immersed in the narrative/premise/book.
Content
Forward (archivist – self)
Introduction (archivist self)
Essay one – ‘on the unfinished artwork, the impossible collection’ (art historian)
Essay two – memory, image, Sebald (writer?)
ARCHIVE
photos – locations
photos – props
scripts
Found/research
letters
maps
other (notes, other images)
stills
