In order to fully understand our location my group and I spend some time on the Brayford waterfront with the sole intention of sitting and watching what happens. People watching, in itself, is fascinating. The numerous personalities we saw just walking down the Wharf each with their own intentions, teenagers rushing past with their attention lost to the music in their headphones, an older lady walking her charming cocker spaniel Duchess and business people in their suits strutting off to their next meeting. The diversity of people in such a small space is fascinating yet it made me think of Govan’s concept about the “Isolation of individuals inherent in this social spectacle”(Routes and Roots). The individuals whose lives intertwine on a regular basis in social spaces without registering a second thought about those they are passing on the street.

Inspired by Supernight Shot we documented our visits with ten minute time lapse videos taken on varying times, days and locations along the Brayford. We then condensed each of these videos to one minute long to create a three minute performance. We then superimposed a real time video of our feet walking down the length of the Brayford on top of the time-lapsed video, ending the video with a black frame around the text ‘The events just witnessed will never be seen again’. The idea of this was to get the audience to consider the passing of time and make them think about the finer details of life that are missed through the focus on technology. However feedback showed that the sped up variations of the videos caused events to become blurry stopping them from noticing anything in finer detail. Also, we had hoped to place a real time audio track over the top of the video that due to technical difficulties we were unable to do.