Visual Narratives

On the first day of this project, we had to walk around Leeds and map it in various different ways. For example, drawing the sounds we heard, illustrating things we saw, writing down where we went. 

I found this task really frustrating. We were given a list of ideas of what to map etc but I found that this confused me further and I couldn't settle on any ideas, so I didn't end up with a lot of work.

 

These are some examples of sound maps I made and this turned out to be the most successful idea I ended up with. I enjoyed the spontaneity of this, because I didn't have time to think through what it might look like - I just drew marks as soon as I heard noises. The results are quite interesting because I got a similar drawing for car alarm as someone else in my group, even though we didn't look at each others drawings when we were doing them.

These are some drawings from inside the corn exchange. They didn't end up being particularly useful because I didn't spend enough time on them. I also still wasn't sure how I was meant to be documenting things by this point so they're not as good as I would have liked.