Assignment progress.

I feel like I have been making much more progress in the last couple of weeks and feel much happier with how I have been doing. I have always had the final assignment in the back of my mind and make sure I have a notebook and pen to hand, as I never know when inspiration may strike. This last weekend I have started to shoot it. Using my mum and her Dementia has been a lot harder than anticipated. I think I thought that as long as everything was well planned and thought out then that would see me through. Unfortunately this has not been the case. Because of the stage her Dementia is at it means that I cannot give her instructions and it is impossible to get her to sit or stand still when required. I have been lucky that I have had my sister over to be my assistant and also star in some of the photos. To try and be in them myself, I quickly realised, would make the whole situation way too stressful for mum and also myself. The theme is to be 'a day in the life' showing some of the things I do on a daily basis to care for mum.

Another thing I have found quite difficult is showing many of the techniques I have learn throughout the course, so I have been referring back to the course material quite a lot.

In some ways I feel as though the subject may be too personal to use for the assignment as I tend not to tell people much about my private life and what I do at home. I did obviously speak to my sister, as I needed her to be involved, but also to my dad. I did not want to feel like I was doing this behind his back, let alone have him think that I was in anyway 'using' mum. He actually made me feel better and said that he understood how the subject could be of interest to other people. I am a little concerned that people will look at my shots and be bored, they are not visually exciting; they show exactly what I do day to day. I guess in that respect I have achieved what I had set out to do.