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For the current project, which I haven’t named it just yet, I already started writing songs. I haven’t finished recording all of them, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the final results I will be showing. Sometimes song writing might be quite different from the images I made or planned to make, the questions kept being asked by myself were whether this will be just like a bunch of weird music videos or were they just some separated songs with a similar theme? I even questioning is it really necessary to write music on this project. So I currently stop song writing at this point, I need more clear and objective thoughts on this. Project results thoughts: Focusing only on the separated memories of me and my mother at around our 20s and 30s. The photographs will based on making the portraits of current age and mixing with old photographs of my mother and myself. The short film will be just one included both people’s memories on objects. The skill of time-lapsing might be useful to explain that the time is passing, and ideally the objects from both people would be presenting at the same time on different side of the frame.

The visual design of exhibition: Sketches, postcard, poster, invitations, Instagram promotion, and Facebook cover picture promotion. Facebook events: https://www.facebook.com/events/215880242184449/

I was inspired by a Taiwanese film called “20, 30, 40″, which directed by a great female director, Sylvia Chang. The story is about love, three women, and in three different ages of them. It’s not really the story that interested me, it was the idea of reflecting to female on their different stages of life. I took this as an inspiration of my project. Then I have faced the first wall of this project, how can I present the differences of the objects I would photograph from my grandmother, my mother and myself? Except the portraits, some of the objects look decayed and old, it’s not really that obvious to immediately recognise which items belongs to whom. And then I hit the second wall, which was to consider the actual working time schedule, I will only stay in Taiwan for a month, in this very limited time, I don’t think I will able to finish all the shooting plans and have a satisfying result. If this idea is having technical difficulty, then I suppose it is better to change it or narrow it down.

I went to my first RedEye event, which is Photography Research: the idea, the project, and the process. There has three different lecturers, the first one was a photography curator and writer, Shirley Read, in which she introduced her forthcoming book exploring the importance of research, and presents the varying ways photographers can undertake successful research to develop their projects. The second one was an adventurous photographer, Martin Hartley, in which he mostly talked about the process of one of his project in the north pole. And the last one was Sian Bonnell, she shared the research and how her process of some of her photographic projects. They all pointed out that the research must be done before you actually start the projects. I found out one problem I always had, whether I mixed together doing research and developing the project, or I didn’t do enough research before working on the project then I had to restart everything all over again. I’ve decided to do as much research as I can when I’m in Taiwan. Although I already started making music tracks for the moving images part in my current project. I will just finish whatever I’ve done so far, and have a pause on this part. (As the music tracks will be considered as the scripts of the moving images, it shall not pausing for too long if the final decision is to have it with sound.)