Three ideas - Time & Memory.

Idea 1 - The life of my grandfather. Following his journey from child hood to growing up and all of the different places he's been and lived and also the things he has faced and finding his identity. Things include: Growing up with a mentally abusive father, mentally ill mother, being the eldest of four siblings, being a 'rocker' and having a motor bike, marrying a mod, living on a farm, living in different areas of London, travelling around the world and finally where he is today. I will be showing the progression of his story through narrated stories, pictures, trinkets and memorabilia and video of his life today and what he does.

Idea 2 - Home videos. For this idea, I would like to take some home videos which my grandparents documented of my sister and I growing up. The footage also includes other family members, but i would like to experiment with the way different people remember what happened. Mainly showing how my sister and I remember it, i would do like a voice over from us now, talking about what we think happened next, and do like a flashback/daydream effect, of what we think happened and then compare it with what actually happened. I would either experiment with animation or a real life re-enactment piece to show our exaggerated memories, then play what really happened after and see how close we were to the truth. Could also be shown with images instead of video to recreate.

Idea 3 - The development of the mobile phone. Going as far back to when they were first commercially introduced in the early 80's to the evolution of them to the present time. How the transition in size, colour and quality has changed so rapidly over the years in such a short period of time. I want to get phones from each update, right from the beginning, and place them in an environment where they fit in with the era that it was created. Or another idea could be to place them in environment where they are taking away excitement from, because people pay all their attention to their phones more then the world now. Show how we have slowly become less aware and more like a machine to the phone then the phone being just an accessory to the human.

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Out of the three ideas, i want to develop idea 2 and 3 further, as i think that idea 1 is a bit of a personal and touchy subject for my Grandad, and I'm not really sure if he would feel comfortable sharing this information with a lot of people. I want to develop the idea of the mobile phone idea, and do research into it, to decide whether i can create something visually interesting with image, sound and moving image. This will help me decide if i can create something in a metaphorical way that would interest an audience, as its something everyone can relate to. At the moment, i am very much interested in the family archive idea, as i think its something i will enjoy creating and experimenting on how i can engage an audience with my life and family, whom im very close to.