Documentary Project, More Refined!

For My Documentary Assignment I will be photographing Civic nightlife.

The Ideas is to capture different sections of an evening, throughout multiple evenings and narrow the images down to form a small series, structured as one evening. 

The Nightlife of almost every city or bustled area have the good, the bad and the ugly, which can be very entertaining seen from an outwardly perspective, but most of the time, it can be very nostalgic.

There are many aspects of civic nightlife; there are bars and pubs, people dine out, bands perform, clubs and there's also a large social benefit within the experience of nightlife. 

Based on my experience of the nightlife, I chose to photograph areas around civic area based on it's own quirks. To mention some would be; multicultural restaurant places, the bazaar people outside of Cube night club, crowds of police along city walk, food stands that sell the most horrible looking food and all the garbage in the interchange that seems to disappear the very next day. I want to photograph all aspects of an evening; from sunset to early evening and from late evening to sunrise.

I have also chosen to shoot from outside the facilities, one being that there is more that occurs in the streets than within facilities (also because I don't trust my camera gear near intoxicated people and I don't want my gear to be confiscated).

The sections are of the different periods of the evening; part 1 being the section of the evening that begins with sunset and peak hour for public workers.

And the final section, part 6, being the final stage of the evening where the streets are cleared of people and cleaners clear the chaos of the evening to start a whole new day.

The days I have chosen to shoot are Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Some days are more suited for different sections of an evening e.g. Thursdays are considered Uni night, where most places such as bars and pubs cater for Uni students with reduced drinks, which results in a lot of binge drinking. There are lots of Public Servants who go out after work on Fridays, Saturdays have the most populated streets and Sunday mornings are the most quiet of the whole week. 

Shooting different days for different sections also allows me to narrow my focus to that specific section and also to not spend long hours out within the the possible chaos.

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