Roads-overlooked: Emma Gerrie&Yuri Choi

Roads... overlooked

The main theme in focus was ‘Roads’ with a subtheme of ‘Overlooked. We decided to concentrate on roads that we travelled by on a regular basis, taking photos of aspects that go unnoticed everyday despite the fact one passes them so often. Our aim was to evoke attention to these disregarded characteristics of roads and to emphasize that if you take the time to look closer, you will notice unexpected things you’ve previously never observed. We emphasized this notion through images taken on both a rainy day and a clear sunny day, in order to highlight different features of roads that go unseen, depending on the type of day. Our choice of music further accentuates this distinction between rain and sun and the overlooked aspects of roads, through the build up of beat once the photos change from rainy to sunny. The music is at a fairly slow tempo to stand concurrent with the commonality and routine concept that is often associated with roads, however the gentle piano solo throughout the song highlights that beauty can be found from everyday mundane objects.