During my tutorial with Ellen I was still struggling with my printed publication. She said to still do the book about text messages but not to have the train time lapse images in the book. I'm worried its not going to look interesting enough to grab peoples attention. She suggested I take my phone in to the studio and photograph the texts on my phone. I thought it was a bit odd at first still thinking it wont be good enough. I gave it ago it took a really long time, I actually used Facebook messages for when I first spoke to Danny but I also took photos of Whatsapp messages as they are images with text. I am also going to experiment with using Snapchat, this app also uses images and text but had a completely different meaning behind it.. Snapchat was designed to take a photo and put some text over the top or you can draw on the image as well, you then send the image to a friend for a certain amount of time. The timings go from 1 second to 10 seconds and then it disappears. The idea was to never see the image again but technology has made this not happen as now on iphones and some other phones you can print screen your images. Kind of defends the point but this has helped me to capture the images me and my friend Danny have sent to each other for this project, so I can't really say its a bad thing. Hopefully it will all work out in the end and become a successful photographic book.
I have some editing to do as the image is far to bright. It was really difficult to get the studio lighting correct. But here is my first image of when me and Danny first spoke after 8 years. This was via Facebook.
This is a different conversation using Whatsapp. Even though on Facebook you can send images for some reason I sent this image to him on Whatsapp. Whatsapp is free to send messages to and from like Facebook. I didn't send the image by text because it costs money.
It already sounds a little confusing but that's the point, its about how we communicate through technology and how in today's society millions of people hardly speak face to face. By texting we lose a lot of emotion and true meaning with words because by text you sometimes cannot tell if that person is angry at you or just having a laugh.
