Recessions Reflection

I am working on a unit from my art foundation that is about recession.
I wanted to do a found footage video on the Tottenham riots as it is a goverment debate on who is to blame for the riots. Even now there are different opinions but there is one truth, and found footage shows a reality to the event.

Once I got the footage I picked it apart into clips that I could use, this is to give an opinion or meaning to a now senstive subject. The artist that helped me to develop my work through was Susan Hiller as I experimented with her uses of colour and effects helped with my development of the found footage piece. As well as Elizabeth Price as the sound and text on her video that won the Turner prize effected how I work with another two video developments, all came out different to each other, giving varied effects to the same subject.

Despite trying different approaches I thought that this idea was coming to a dead end as I did not know how I could develop further, as I thought that I couldn't get my point across. All of the found footage showed only one side of the debate, that the public are in the wrong. I decided to get a second opinion on if I should countuine with found footage and the subject. My tutor reminded me that I work better if the subject is more personal. So I changed my idea from political to metaphorical, using the other meaning of recession as the focus of my work.