Place Week One: Primary Research



Week One

What did you learn?
This week we learned how to do primary research. Primary research basically going to a location and taking notes, interviewing people that you know or are the the location, take photos, make rubbings, make drawings, record sound and observe, the list is truly endless. We then used these notes and put the in our scrapbook.

The note taking and quick sketching work really well for me. Gathering information and putting neatly in my scrapbook really helped me get my thoughts and feelings out there in a orderly fashion. It was hard taking notes because all of my locations were abroad however I have been to these locations many of times to mentally feel and sense the location. Instead of drawing the surroundings I drew images that represented the location.

Some of the ways different artistic methods on how to describe our locations. I'm not very creative so trying to get my thoughts and feelings across using these methods were quite a challenge. My hands can't match what my head is thinking and I end up doing some that doesn't resemble the picture. I much prefer to do quick sketch line drawings and photography then using chalk.

I will use the skills that I have learnt, in the future to do proper note taking and being able to truly appreciate the places I go. I guess you could say that I have never had a true eye for seeing the world and the places that I go but now thats to this week, locations that I have been to plenty of times feels like the first.

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