Following the feedback received fro my tutor regarding assignment 5 – I have made a few changes to the assignment. I understood a Simon’s comment re a few of the images, and I have swapped a couple of the files over to give a slightly different impression to he viewer.
I have left the original image 5 (the rope) and the Image 7 (passengers) as while they are not perhaps unique to the Star Ferry, they do capture what I am trying to achieve. The picture of the rope is one of the small details that catch my eye each time I board, something that indicates we are on a boat and something that will never change while ever the ferry is in service. Similarly, with the passengers it is meant to show a normality because while the ferry is perhaps a quirky working piece of history it is part of everyday life for many people.
I have removed the original image six in favour of a bilingual sign, as it shows more the audience the age that the ferry comes from and I have removed the Image 10 the standard ferry shot and swapped in a more quirky image of the crew cutting rope mid crossing on the deck of the ferry.
I have looked at the order of the pictures and they are presented to how a sense of journey from what you see as you board the ferry, to what you see as you walk around and finally the ferry arrive at the pier.
I feel that this set builds on the original set tightening and plays more to the quirkiness of the ferry. I have considered captions to the images, but I like that the feel it better to allow the audience to guided by the own thoughts, as would look to present this as an exhibition with the introduction being why 300 “what is it about.”
The Star Ferry
What is it about?
For HK$2 you can climb aboard the Star Ferry at Pier 7 in Central, Hong Kong and embark on a journey that has despite the marching of time and modernization has remained remarkably untouched in decades.
The Star Ferry was the one thing I wanted to do when originally came to Hong Kong on a short business trip – if I did nothing else I had to tick it off my bucket list. Now some seven years later I still take the ferry on a regular basis, and I am still as happy as I was the first day I sailed across the harbour. The ferry is to everything about Hong Kong that I love. For five years I lived stones through away and it would often be the starting point for me on many a day out.
The Star Ferry that it is living museum, a ferry runs from 6 am to 11 pm only stopping for typhoons, not matter how many passengers there are. Even though this is no longer the only way to cross the harbor it is still as relevant now as it was then.
I once said happiness was getting on board the star ferry, coffee in hand, and setting off on the short seven-minute journey across the harbor. There is peace and tranquility on the ferry, even at the busiest times, that you cannot experience any other form of transport. Life on the ferry moves at a different pace, there are details to take in, free air to breathe, there is personal space that you never feel on the MTR (Hong Kong’s underground); these images are an attempt to show the peace I feel every time I step on the ferry.
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