I chose to focus on the photographer, Elina Brotherus', series of photographs at the Photographer's Gallery. Unlike the other subjects of the Motherhood exhibit, the fact that she can't be a mother to a child grown from her own body I find is really important to show in the exhibition. My short animation I decided should deal with the issues and experiences' of women and fertility. I wanted to show 2 different sides of this issue. From a woman who wants to have one to a young girl who is in the middle of school and is just figuring out her life. Unfortunately their fertility works in the opposite way to how they'd want it to and hints to a them feeling like failures. Many would see the young girl making a mistake as irresponsible and dirty and the woman not filling out a natural part of life.
At first I thought of showing the women's different lives and the situation they're going through, side by side or cut to different perspectives for each scene but I was advised, in a conversation of group critiquing, that it may be too much and the at of actually waiting for the pregnancy test's result was simple and yet more powerful.
I did around 5 different storyboards before getting to work on some flip-books. I then photographed each image before piecing it together on the computer along with quite tense music I had recorded myself. After showing the end product I was advised to maybe put together the two images of these stories side by side so to hint to the idea the characters are in the same bathroom, in the neighbouring stalls. I also noticed that the size of the images' frame shifts because some images are cropped differently from others. So next time, I should consider the quality of the image rather than cropping the picture as well as thinking about how the cut scenes look to the audience.
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