Self directed lens base and digital project

I am inspired by buildings. 

Groups of buildings in cities or housing estates or isolated buildings. 

What interests me is how they relate to people.  Old buildings have a sense of history even if they are no longer in use.  New buildings are usually still being used by the people who live or work in or around the buildings

Examples of modern buildings, which inspire me, are the De Montfort University Campus Buildings and the office buildings and new library in Birmingham city center.

An older building that has had a particular impact on me is the National Trust Property at Baddesley Clinton which was taken by two couples almost in isolation throughout their lives and which has been restored or preserved just as it was when they lived there.  

The film " Yellow Patch” by Zarina Bhimji, which I saw at The New Art Gallery Walsall, helped me to start to understand what it is I like about buildings and start to appreciate film, including sound, as a medium.

I notice how buildings are used in cinematography and theatre to help to tell the story and set the scene or atmosphere.

In my lens based project, I would like to:-

i. Look more closely at " Yellow Patch" to understand why I like it so much.

ii.  See if I can use what I find in my own photographs of places that inspire me.

iii. Perhaps experiment with adding some sound to my images.

iv. Although I do not have much experience of filmmaking I would like to continue to experiment a little with this.

v. Experiment with presenting my work as a "story board" for a film or theatre production.

I hope that the work in this project will feed into my drawing project, which is around the same theme. 

The artists whose work I shall research are: - Annie Leibovitz, George Shaw, Rut Blees Luxumberg, Zarina Bhanji and John Monks.

Below are some images that I have started off with looking at that I have taken.