17th April 2014
Having lived majority of my life in Abu Dhabi and knowing more locations and places I could do this kind of project over there than over here. In relation to; more open empty spaces, less health and safety regulations so gaining access to abandoned buildings and constructions sites was allot more feasible. However with both work and Uni I obviously wasn’t able to travel over there.
To overcome this issue as it was becoming more evident I wasn’t going to be able to achieve the desired outcomes in the locations available to me here. After speaking to some site managers and the council the verdict was that I would be unable to enter these locations in the type of costumes I wanted the models to be in. They would have to wear helmets and bright safety jackets and that was if they even let me at all after all the letters, dates and planning all matched up and got accepted.
With everyone else doing there dissertation and me running out of time I decided to give; descriptive details of the type of image I want to create, exact locations and positions to my family to then take the images for me. My old camera and tripod was still at home so all they needed was for me to give them exact details of what pictures I wanted and how to set and use my camera. Although this is not ideal and I knew it would be a struggle to get my mother to be able to take the images having barely used a camera and never in an artistic way. I felt that in time I would get a better result just as the background locations would be far more outstanding which is what I wanted.
