Labour Vs Leisure

Following my trial film pictures, I wanted to explore the idea of the labour in leisure, by taking side by side comparisons of analogue and digital work through humorous leisure. 

My research after my last film camera and development trial wasn’t so much through the work of others but rather how to use my equipment correctly. The main issue I had was chemicals spreading unevenly on my work, this was due to my poor execution of rolling the film onto the reel before placing it into the development tank. To fix this mistake I watched a few step by step youtube tutorials and practiced with old developed film and my reel. I first did it a couple times in the light to see how it rolled on, next I tried it several times in the dark to see if I could do it, when it came to putting my real film roll i wanted developed into the reel I made sure to place there reel in a way that I knew where the slots were before turning the lights off. After my reflection and research my new batch of film came out much better. 

Along with creating the labor of analogue into leisure based activities, my work became quite humorous and ironic as I had my mum partake in dumb acts of leisure including:

Working on the computer on the lawn

Sunbathing on the driveway

Dusting the trees

Reading a book on a car bonnet

 Drinking a cup of tea in a tree

References:

“How to Load Film into Developing Reel.” n.d. Www.youtube.com. Accessed October 12, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsr5SKP7eQU.Harrison, Liam. 2018. “The Complete 9-Step Guide to Developing Your Own Film – Format.” Www.format.com. July 24, 2018. https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/photography/how-to-develop-film-35mm-120.