Developing CCTV imagery

I also saw parallels in breaking up the image with a Conscertina book which would be quite an interesting way of displaying the images, this made me create a variety of 'tracing paper machetes' and moved into different combinations to displace my flat image into a 3D structure. 

I also wanted to look at creating a contour around the figures in these CCTV images that drew parallels with fingerprints, something integral to the theme of identity. I looked at contouring the figures in different ways to give a variety of a possible 'visual fingerprint'. I also did this with looking at contouring with straight lines rather then curved, once again creating an abstract outline of a person generating a 'code' or even a 'barcode'. 

I wanted to further these CCTV images by printing them on a large format printer to get a feel for them being like a wallpaper, an idea inspired by 'story' in New York which is a pop up space where artists go in monthly and try to transform a space into a topic that is based around their practice. I thought it would be interesting to have a wallpaper of CCTV images and have a room themed on CCTV, mirrors reflecting the viewers face.

I found the linear straight image the most effective and saw it as a human barcode as the outline suggested a figure encased within straight lines which is often seen in barcodes. I liked the concept of people having to be scanned, which made me think of creating movement or an optical illusion and making an image move. Creating a parallel with Bridgette Rileys work and optical art which due to close wave lines creates the optical illusion of movement. 

Bridgette riley warped

This is something I want incorporate in my major project as I feel it has a lot of potential and is very current with QR codes not to mention I could see myself further developing this idea into a publication.

Broken up CCTV

I experimented printing them on a larger scale and also printing them on tracing paper, seeing whether I could layer them in order to create a more three dimensional CCTV image. This was not very effective and so I decided to take elements from the disposable images such as the linear structure and transfer this onto some of my other market street scenes. 

When I think of CCTV footage I think of an image on a TV screen that has a slight delay so it breaks up the image, I tried to replicate this in my images and it worked well because it made the street scene more interesting and also highlighted certain people for the viewer to look at and focus on in a busy scene. The varying widths of the lines that broke up the scene and the fact that they vertically break up the image makes it resemble CCTV more closely. I did this with a number of different scenes to create a timeline and act as stills to CCTV footage. 

The one element that I felt wasn't that effective was the colouring from the disposable camera image because it just seemed quite sporadic.