WEEK 2: Meeting Trixie/ Initial Ideas

This week was the week we had to have some sort of idea on what we were doing for the next 4 weeks with this project. After receiving the voice notes from Sybil and Samara we began transcribing the words we shared with Trixie, I was still to meet  her.
After meeting Trixie later that Tuesday I began to reconsider the legitimacy of my original idea to make a 50 first dates-esque viideo.

The idea of compiling together a film of all the places Trixie had been became clearly quite difficult, the majority of these areas were too far away from where we were all situated. She talked of Wales "pontypridd" and the Cotswold's, Broadway Tower. And gathering visual recorded data for these sites that now look a lot different to when Trixie visited them years ago seemed sort of pointless because they may have changed drastically to the way she remembers them.
for example in Pontypridd, Trixie married in around 1950/55 so her  and her husband (who was welsh) would've visited the famous  Taff Vale shopping centre (built in 1960)
1960s SHOPPING CENTRE

2016 Shopping centre

its clear the shopping centre has undergone many changes since Trixie would have been there, and plans to begin construction work on the site were at hand, so the place would not look the same.

Assessing the effectiveness of the idea we saw the cons weighed out the pros, in that getting the correct images would be too time consuming or going up to the sites to costly for our pockets. So in a compromise we decided upon creating a picture book of the places Trixie visited made of pictures from the time that she may have visited them, to accompany some sort of audio experience describing the places using our own words and those of hers that we had recorded, so it would still incorporate some of Trixie eternally, and us as well for her.