In order to put the cameras power to the test I want carry out a series of experiments which show how being under the watch of the lens can influence peoples decisions and behavior. The camera has the power to make people feel safe and scared, it also causes people to either shy away or play up to the lens, and its this behavior change I want to document and explain using Foucualt theories and others.
SMILE TEST
I plan to catch people out on the spot and ask them to smile on camera, this could go either way, some people may shy away and others may go along with it, it will be interesting to see the kinds of people that play along and that shy away.
WALLET TEST
In order to test how trust worthy people can be and also to test the power of CCTV I will recreate the Derren Brown experiment, this will go one of 2 ways, either someone will eventually pick it up, or no one will touch it at all for fear of being watched.
PARTITIONING EXPERIMENT
I will draw a box on the floor and see if people see this as a barrier, although it is not a physical barrier it could have the same effect as the wallet in the circle. I hope that people start to see the shape as a kind of partition of the path and walk round it. To keep this is the style of the other experiment I could have smile your on camera drawn on the floor with the box.
1 POUND GLUED TO THE FLOOR
This will be similar to the wallet experiment except I will not draw on the floor. This way there will be more interaction. I will try and count how many people try and pick it up and how many see it but walk past for fear of being watched.
ACTING UP TO THE CAMERA
This experiment is to see whether people take the opportunity to get on camera or decide to shy away and become more reserved and in a defensive mode. This will be good to see what extent people go to.
SPEED CAMERAS
Speed cameras act as another panoptic eye. Many if the speed cameras across the country are actually inactive but people still reduce their speed for fear of being caught out. I Will film cars going by to see how many drastically reduce their speed Or keep going at the normal rate.
Speed cameras act as another panoptic eye. Many if the speed cameras across the country are actually inactive but people still reduce their speed for fear of being caught out. I Will film cars going by to see how many drastically reduce their speed Or keep going at the normal rate.
TRANSPORT CAMERA
Their are over 11 cameras on most bus's in the UK and even more on a train I shall see how this affects the behaviour of the passengers.
REGISTRATION
One of the other panoptic techniques was registration which is the monitoring and storing of information about people, this can be seen everyday at college whilst clocking in and out, also shopping and online adverts which are customly tailored to our personal taste, pushing a consumerist society.
EXAMPLES OF ADVERTISING
I will find examples of advertising persuading us to buy shit we don't need or examples where beautiful woman/men are used which could provoke people to feel bad about the way they look as they try to live up to the expectations of the size 0 model era.
REGISTRATION
One of the other panoptic techniques was registration which is the monitoring and storing of information about people, this can be seen everyday at college whilst clocking in and out, also shopping and online adverts which are customly tailored to our personal taste, pushing a consumerist society.
EXAMPLES OF ADVERTISING
I will find examples of advertising persuading us to buy shit we don't need or examples where beautiful woman/men are used which could provoke people to feel bad about the way they look as they try to live up to the expectations of the size 0 model era.
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