[COLLAB1] IDEAS + FIRST BRAINSTORM WITH SONJA

INITIAL IDEAS 

- branding: bring together young creatives 

- train windows 

During the Christmas holiday, Sonja and I were both in Hong Kong and we talked about how I wanted to collaborate with her and this has been what we have been longing for to do since we where in high school. We thought that this would be a really good opportunity to start out our plan and work on something that we both are interested in, something personal. We briefly talked about what we wanted to do on the train journey from Leeds to Manchester when we were hading back to Hong Kong. Both of us were interested in the reflections on the window and how it could actually be portrayed as the double exposure function on film cameras. 

Train windows, double exposure as starting point. 

TRAIN WINDOWS 

common characteristics of train windows pictures: 

- 2 layered images 

- usually one still, one moving 

- two different locations, usually one indoor, one outdoor 

- one dark, one bright 

ideas that always come with train windows:

- homesick 

- loneliness

- me-time 

- unstable, unsettled 

TRAIN JOURNEYS

- long and boring 

- relaxing 

- isolating 

- suffocating 

However, due to location and time constraints, we have to communicate through WhatsApp. Both of us are really busy these days, therefore, we kept on sending exchanging mindmaps and adding notes onto each others' in order to brainstorm what was in our minds.

Both of us thought that the idea of having two different locations is a really good point to be pushed further. And how train windows reflects shadows can be interpreted as "home is where the heart is". It can also be interpreted as never being able to settle, always floating around and looking for a place where we can call "home". 

Both of us can relate to the ideas really strongly as we are  studying abroad, in a place which is half the globe away from home.