UNIT 4 - AO3 (3/3) - Wooden Chest.

After feeling worn about my picture-frame idea for my display, walked downstairs to get some incense out of my storage box. Then it hit me that I could display my photographs in this box. I could have my photographs lay inside the box and have my final piece form more of an artefact than a display of all things. It could be an personal storage box of someone who worked at the railway many years ago.

However I couldn't use the box I had on me so I went back down to the antiques quarter to visit 'The Vault' on Abbeydale Road. Once I arrived I walked around for 20 minutes and found three to four different wooden chests that seemed to be around the right size for what I had in mind.

These were two of the boxes:

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The one on the top had a better finish on the outside, but had gotten dry and musty on the inside. The opposite was true for the cigar box on the bottom. However, when I thought about it, it would be more fitting for someone working at a steam railway to own a Cigar Box than a regular storage chest, so I bought the Cigar box for £8.

After I got back I started to wonder about what to put in the box, this was to be something that I could see someone one the railway carrying around everyday. I was limited by size and shape, the boxes inside was roughly, L - 18cm, W - 10cm, H - 5cm. So I could only just fit a 35mm roll with out its case upright in the box. I also thought it would be a fantastic idea to have one of the film strips from my trip to find a place inside as well if the guy's a photography enthusiast. I then went to my shed to look for my overalls incase I had any cleaning rags left from the last time I volunteered at the railway, luckily I had two so I put one of in with the box as well.

Lastly I wanted to find out how I would display my photographs. I mulled over the idea of organising all of the images to form a "Day in the life" lay out so as you'd flick through the you would see progression of time throughout the series. Because of size limitations, the largest standard image size I could fit in was the standard 6x4 sized print, however it gave me more room to fill other objects in so thats alright. I then started thinking about captions and descriptions of photographs. I could print out captions and descriptions for all 91 images that I would be featuring for this project. However, as my project has been focused the vintage themes and techniques of past documentary photographs and the time period they were in. I found it would be more suitable to use a type writer instead of printing it out from a computer. I've talked to my friend and he says he can lend me his typewriter for his exam. But, as they're much slower than a computer, I've decided that I won't type descriptions and captions for all of the photographs and to instead split the photographs up into four sections and write a description card for the events taking place in the photographs on the typewriter instead, which will no doubt save me a hell of a lot of time.

Overall, now that I have seen the potential from this new project I have decided that I am going to carry out this idea for my final end of year piece. Now its just a matter of getting the exam and this artefact finished.