We have collected all the footage together and distributed it to all members of the group to work on our individual films over the weekend.
We have all taken different sub categories that interest us based around the role of time in the city. Personally I am going to look at signs, signals and warnings; I find these things really interesting because of two factors, the interpreted meaning of a sign and the action we take when we register one. Signs are instructions and in the city they serve to govern the flow of people, vehicles and some types of information through a city.
I want to experiment with signs and challenge what makes an effective one; usually the obedience in the presence of a sign is instinctual, they are often there to keep us orderly or safe and we obey without much thought. My aim is to present signs in a way that may alter their meaning or make them in some way chaotic or different from the signs that rule us every day in our travels. I am quite fascinated by the concept of seeing how far and what elements of a design can be changed while leaving it still recognisable and able to be obeyed.
Initially when we presented our ideas to the class we didn't want to take to firm of a stance on whether we thought the clock controlled the average city-goer but I think I will for effect probably take a polar stance and suggest that we are ruled by the clock. A clock is a man made device that can cause relief, panic or a great number of other emotions from one glance and the recognition of the time that follows, this to me creates an order but a rather artificial one, with my movie I would like to encourage room for interpretation in the city's seldom considered fixtures.
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