As primary research to help me develop my idea, I conducted a small questionairre/interview with some of my friends and family. Originally I was going to interview members of the LGBT community, but after having a tutorial with one of my tutors I was suggested to ask more generally about people's memories of events or special occasions. I agreed with this as I didn't particularly want to restrict my idea too much, so instead I asked various people what is their best memory of an occasion or event and why, and what colours they associate with the memory they describe.
First I asked a friend of mine from college, who had a lot of memories involving occasions and found it difficult to narrow it down. Eventually she decided to tell me about her first Karate tournament where she was injured and came in 2nd place. The colours she associates with it are red and white. I liked her story as her memory definitely reflected her as a person. Next I interviewed my mum, who told me about her trip as a child to the Royal Tournament with her dad who served in the military. She said she remembered the marching bands and military marches the most, because she enjoyed it. She also said she remembers sitting on her dad's shoulders to see, and that the colours she associates with the event are red, green and blue, like the military uniforms. The next person I interviewed was a childhood friend of mine named Megan. She told me about a drunken night out with her friends going to see a band that she then said were terrible. She mentions not remembering much, but the reason it's a memory that stuck in her head is because of the good company and laughs. The colours she associates with the event are blue and green stage lights and the colour orange. The last person interviewed was my boyfriend Dean. He spoke about going on holiday to Mauritius to see his family, and DJ-ing for them on New Year's Eve. He remembers the colour red because of the sunset and fireworks.
What I discovered from my interviews that interested me is that each person's memory of an event or occasion reflects their personality in some way.
After interviewing my friends and family, I took a trip to Brighton to see my dad and while I was there decided to go out and photograph. Unfortuneately, due to the Brighton Marathon being scheduled on the same weekend I couldn't get to St,James' street, which is where majority of the gay bars and clubs are located in Brighton. Instead I improvised and took photographs of the pier, which could come in useful when I start to experiment. I also found photographs from 2014 London Gay Pride which can be used to start off my experimenation process also. I also asked my dad to find some images of Brighton Pride when I was a child but there wasn't many that really communicated my memory of it. I chose images of Pride that I thought represented the event best: A photograph of one of the London buses that travel through the parade, a photograph of a drag queen, a photograph of me whilst on one of the parade buses with a balloon covering my face (I liked the spontaneity of the image and the composition) and a photo of a group of women & men dressed in pink taken from the bus.
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