The next iteration I made for this week was the first draft of what ended up being my final project with the working title Rats.

Something that came up in the tutorial I had with Boris Meister was how I was actually doing a performance in the photos I had taken of myself at Bank. That concept was very intriguing to me — performance — particuarly because I saw a connection with professionalism. Professionalism is a performance, whether you agree with it or not. No one is born professional, and no-one speaks or acts like that naturally.

What better way of showing the performance of professionalism by performing as a professional doing very unprofessional things. Rushing around, going to the gym, running for transit, making detours. I began with these images, which I had initially planned to be in a book.

However, after creating the beginnings of the book, I felt as if it were better served as either a flipbook or a moving image project. I directed this photography to be more about motion than visual quality. I changed the settings of the camera to emphasise speed, blur, motion and a book didn’t seem to emphasise that. Also, without music or audio, I felt like the images were less funny (ie in a flipbook).

I also began to consider presentation and what went hand in hand with my themes, and I thought displaying a film version on a Dell monitor (very corporate looking) would be more in line with the tone of the project.

So, this test sequence was born