Memory Loss- Idea

After think about my ideas and how we remember things so I thought I would have a look at memory loss. 

Memory loss, also called amnesia, occurs when a person loses the ability to remember events and information they would normally be able to recall. This could be something that happened only seconds or minutes ago, or a memorable event that happened in the past. The memory loss may have started suddenly or may have been getting worse over the last year or so.

Memory loss can be distressing, for the person affected as well as for their family. Relatives may fear the worst and assume it's caused by dementia, but this often isn't the case.

Stan Strembicki "memory loss"

I would like to show memory loss using photos in the video ether disappearing like they have been forgotten or turning cloudy like they are hard to remember.

http://io9.com/what-its-like-to-live-with-short-term-memory-loss-1457297762

 On the link above, their is a short video on what it is like to life with short term memory loss. What I found the most interest  is the comments that people have left about the video and also about their own experience with memory loss.

After Feed Back

From getting some feed back from my tutor I researched another photographer (Vik Muniz)  and looking at a website that is based of re-photographing memories (Dear Photograph). I also looked at Kodak's slogan.

Another Idea

I had a thought about having a family member maybe my Nan or Dad talking about a photography. They could be talking about the memories that they think about when looking at the photo also their feelings and thoughts about it too, not only that they could describe the photo.

Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is the world leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures — for memories, for information, for entertainment.

Kodak's slogan started people thinking that taking photographs of family and friends is great way to

preserver memories which people did and still do but digital not always printed.

Dear Photography

The website shows a number people around the world re-photographing scene from the past it could be their past or someone they love like childhood photos. I found the website to be quite interesting.



 

 

"Dear Photograph,

Trafalgar Square 50 years ago and my Granny never looked happier! If my house was burning down, this would be the one possession I would be desperate to save. I miss so many things about my Granny but most of all I miss her beautiful smile.
Clare" 

http://dearphotograph.com/

The photographs and the quote is from the website. i wanted to copy the quote because made me think on why we keep photos and sometimes why we treasure them. I thought about how I could have some one talk about the photo first why its so important to them and how it makes them feel before describing it. It would give the listener or the viewer a sense of how the photos made the owner of the photo feel.

  

Vik Muniz

The Best of Life. Here,from an interview with Peter Galassi, is Muniz's own description of his project:

"The Best of Life Series, for example, are drawings of very famous photographs made entirely from memory. When the drawings were good enough to look like a bad reproduction of the original image, I photographed them and printed them with the same half tone pattern we usually see in these images for the first time in the papers. In these works I tried to find out what a photograph looks like in your head when you are not looking at it. They carried the structure of the famous news pictures but they were in fact very different."

  

Photograph of a kiss in Times Square on V-J day (August 14, 1945) by Alfred Eisenstaedt, and memory rendering of it by Vik Muniz. Interestingly, there seem to be a lot of claimants to be the sailor portrayed in this photograph.

Photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin by Neil Armstrong, 1969, and memory rendering of it by Vik Muniz.

Photograph, "The Unknown Rebel", taken by AP photographer Jeff Widenerin Tiananmen Square in 1989, and memory rendering of it by Vik Muniz.

One interesting thing going on in these pairings are the left/right reversals. Note that each of those three images are reversed horizontally: the tanks slope high left to low right in Muniz's memory, but the other way (and not as much) in Widener's photograph; Muniz remembers Aldrin's right arm, not his left arm, being bent up; and the kissers bend to the left not to the right. I wonder what's going on here (is there a cognitive scientist in the house?)

It would be quite interesting to have someone draw, ever from memory or from someones description, a photography it could be another idea for this g, filming some one drawing a family photo from memory or from a description of a photo from memory.

Shimon Atte

Shimon Attie is a visual artist making evocative work using photographs, video installations, new media, and works on paper.  “Concerned with questions of memory, place, and identity, Shimon Attie gives visual form to both personal and collective memories by introducing histories of marginalized and forgotten communities into the physical landscape of the present.”

 

 

The photos are quite hunting since they show a past that was a devastating for not just the country but the world. I think projecting the photos on to the building show how things have changes which could symbolizes how peoples thought have changed.

interesting opening sequence

At the workshop to introduce this assignment we looked at some opening sequences, I wanted to look at some more opening sequences that I thought were interesting and may give me some ideas for my own video. Their are a number of opening sequences that are quite interesting as they have to show you what the series is like without giving anything away I wanted to look at some more.

Sons of Anarchy is a show based on a bike club/gang that goes through lies,death and a lot of trouble I really enjoy the show and the opening sequence is also really good.

The video only shows parts of peoples body only focusing on the tattoos. It doesn't give much away to what the series is about but it does give you small hints like the tattoos. The hint are what i found interesting about the video it show the full person only the area were the person is tattooed.