This week helped me get things in perspective, however, on a practical front it did not deliver the results I had hoped for.
I’ve set about creating a bank of walks – wanting to surreptitiously film the public and capture some of their walks and movement styles. I started off around RMIT and around the city. Maybe this is not the best place to do this – the people that I’m looking for need to have a certain poise and a certain level of photogenie that will make their body and their entire movement mesmerizing, and standout from the crowd. However, in the throws of week 11 of uni, it would appear that that is not an easy find.
It’s interesting though – looking, searching out people who might have something more to offer in terms of their physical capabilities and movements. It’s not necessarily an learned behavior, this poise, but innate. There are very distinct characteristics to peoples walks. The sound of walks is another element worth exploring. I can easily identify whom from my family is moving around the house based on the sound of their walk. I am also very good at guessing who is about to turn the corner and enter the office based on the sound their shoes make on the ground on their approach.
It’s just another aspect that marks our movements as individuals. Replicating and copying those movements is something that I cannot comprehend. I feel it would take a great deal of time and energy to learn to walk like someone. To learn to move like someone.
Indirectly, I am finding myself with a growing appreciation for actors, at the same time as finding that maybe, with some foresight and planning, it is quite possible to find what you are looking for in real people. You just have to look, and be considered in your looking.

My efforts, with individual reflections can be found here & here

I intent to try this again – experiment with lenses (and use a camera that offers me more flexibility whilst at the same time not being too overt in the act of filming strangers). The approach is not to capture details of individuals, but capture their actions and how they relate to their surroundings.