During my travels in other coutries, I found that I would rarely ever take photos of my journey. Instead, I would choose specific points in the journey where I found something interesting to take a photo of. This brought about a question, what if we forced ourselves to take photos?
We were also inspired by Jonathan Harris’s The Whale Hunt, who documented a traditional whale hunt by taking photos that “more or less matched the changing pace of [his] own heartbeat”. So for this sketch, we were wondering what we could produce if we were to take a similar approach. Instead of taking photos at the pace of a heartbeat, we decided to take one photo every 5 minutes while walking around Melbourne.
Initially, since we were inspired by Harris’s work, we wanted to make it so that it could be “sampled, where users could choose a certain point in the journey instead of putting it all into one video and not giving them a choice.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been living in Melbourne for 2 years now but I truly believe that if I were actually travelling, be it hiking or having a tour schedule in another country, this would’ve been a lot more interesting.
I found setting up the “one photo every 5 minutes” rule to be really restrictive because during my walk I had a few instances where I wanted to whip out my phone and take a photo of something that looked interesting like a busker or a scene.