Initial Themes/Concepts

Themes i derived from the viewing of the film were of; Human development, human detachment, responsibility and sacrifice. my strongest theme being that of human detachment. In the film i find that there is a few key moments and feelings of great detachment from others. One obviously being that of the riots and of Daria's attitude to aspects of her life after meeting Mark. Mark himself is very detached from others in general, he doesn't really console and trust in others too much. His language towards Daria is very distant. Mark express' apparent disappointment in the fact he didn't murder the officer the police believe he shot. Showing his lack of respect towards life and how he is willing to take another's life to make a stand and a statement.

Ideas i developed from this theme was to perhaps to take photo's of people in transit, more so public transport commuters and their blatant detachment from every person around them. No one else cares where you going why your there or who you are. they see it as a in between and are just keeping to themselves in order to get to where they need to be. So i thought photographs of these people who are crammed into cramped seats on public transport and even sit across from one another have no attachment to the person they are sat with or near. If they are sat next to someone they will do so in a way so they don't actually touch the other person, not even risking a attachment of touch. I do a Public commute to get to uni everyday which consists of getting a bus then a train in order to make it so my studio and the evidence is huge that people don't want to be attached to people they are in such close proximity to and obvious links to via the use of public transport. From this idea i progressed onto the notion of taking pictures of the people we are so detached from we almost take for granted. The mailman/woman, milkman/woman, shop assistants, garbage men. Today these detachments are very clear as with the bin-men and royal mail on strike we find our lives/world a bit harder and more frustrating. Unfortunately I didn't get chance to take these photographs and explore them but i do wish to refer back to my initial ideas in a project of their own perhaps.

My ideas were coming too fast and too varied so i honied it down with some help from my tutor to the detachment of people in the extreme's, these extreme's being that of the detachment of criminals. How far from society's norms and etiquette these people can become. Most often or not they are out to prove something or to make a stand against something but there is those certain individuals that even our vast knowledge of the world cannot fathom. In the most extreme of the criminal i chose to look at the Serial Killer. There are those Serial killers who cannot be explained or their actions remotely rationalized. Despite the huge detachment of these certain individuals from public and society's we do our best to try and "understand". We have established a "criminology" the masses attempt to make what they cannot comprehend. We make small individual societies for them "prisons" in our attempt to "rehabilitate" them as we believe they are "wrong".