This first Time project entails recording a 24-hour day in life through pictures and critical thinking of how the concept of time may be represented. The first image shows the process of putting together a flip book of all these recorded moments in a day with captions that describe the scene.

This second photo depicts the process behind putting together the storyboard by selecting specific images from the 24-hour period to tell a particular story. Aspects like the spacing between the pictures and layout show the duration of a certain instance, the time gap between specific events, and so on.

 

Here are the final storyboard and flip book. In the storyboard, I manipulated time by rearranging the order of specific photos in which I took them to create a story that is different from what happened. I thought of making a story where I meet a “stranger” (the metal man-shaped object) and carry out a date with him that eventually stops (indicated by the red light). It ends with my departure home. On the other hand, the flip book accurately documents my 24-hour day with captions to describe each photo.

Finally, the third and last part of the project required students to make a time map of the events that occurred in the day based on how you memorize them. In my case, I chose to stick to one part of my day where I find a man-shaped object being thrown away and repurpose it for one of my future projects. The way I saw time and that particular memory was in terms of direction, for it happened along one street (going to the Hudson River and back). I separated the entirety of the memory by first indicating where my journey began (at my dorm building on the third floor level) and ended (the cafe by my dorm building). The reversal of the images taken at the cafe show that I was walking back toward my dorm on the opposite side of the street at which I began. The Hudson River acted as a separation point between the memories of my walk there and my walk back. The overlapping of bursted images is a “cinematic” approach to showing the elongated duration and the step-by-step process of something happening. In between the bursted image of me walking toward the Hudson, I included snippets of scenes that stood out along the way and would work in conjunction with my narrative. I overlapped 2 sets of images of windows where one is zoomed in to mimic the idea of “peaking inside” or taking a closer look at something. The narrative can be read via this link: Time- Final map narrative -p266do