Interviews part 1

Me and Jennie did some interviews yesterday in Elephant&Castle area. we started in the pun Duke of York in Borough Road. we were using mp3 player with facility of recording to do that. first as a test we asked our classmates to share their opinion about E&C, Jennie took some photos as well with her camera phone(so people are not so scared if we want to photograph them, for sure it will be much better then using a professional equipment). after interviews in the pub we moved on to the Perry Library and we spoke with the security guys working there, then we walked near the shopping centre and we asked some people in the street about their opinion about the area. we spoke to Bill, a homeless guy who is begging near the shopping centre, I think that his point of view was very different then the other people. anyway the opinion about the regeneration plan wasn't the same(not that I expected that it will be). some would like to modernise the shopping centre and around E&C as well, but some also would like to live it how it is with the diversity of cultures and that they like the way it is.
all the material will be posted shortly to our separated blog(which I mention in some posting before). I think it will be necessary to do the website or if not to advertise our blog that there will be bigger interest in what we are doing.
we decided with Jennie that we will do that kind of interview session each week, or even twice a week, so hopefully it will grow to a big project:)
what is difficult is to photograph the person who we talk to, not all of them agreed yesterday to be photograph, also I don't know how we will put everything together as a one peace, we would like to do it as a slide show, but some of our stories are short and some of them are long, so the question is shall we decide which one is more important? and what to do if we don;t have an image to go with the story? anyway I think that we will put it together somehow.
now I need to transfer the recordings from my mp3 player and edit them in some software so we will have a clear voice without the messy background.

some example of the photos Jennie took with her camera phone:

Intervention- progress

So what to do with the intervention?

This week on Tuesday, we had a chat with Paula, our photocultures teacher, we were discussing different aspects of how we can improve our new blog and she also gave us some ideas what we can do next. We all decided that from now on, each week we will be working on small interventions in the E&C and later on we would like to put everything on together as one peace onto our blog and also we would like to work with Aviv and Patrick and with some more people from our class.
My and Jennie R would like to still do some interviews in local pubs, to ask maybe elderly people about their memories with E&C and about their vision about the future and if they think it will change the area for better.
I would like to photograph E&C each week from different angels, so I can present the variety of E&C, I will be interested more in architectonic shoots of buildings.
Also from now on me, Jennie and Sandra will be working separately and together, so we still want to keep a brain storm, so there will be many different ideas what to do and how.

Elephant and Castle