Visual Narratives - 'Space' - conversation transcripts

I talked with three different people about the concept of 'space' and whilst some interesting points were raised, overall it is such a large and abstract concept that it is difficult to have a natural conversation about it. Unfortunately all three conversations were over the phone, recorded with a microphone on my computer, which meant that to type them out, I would have to fiddle about closing and re opening different on screen windows to pause the recording whilst I typed it out. So, I decided it would be easier to hand write them, hopefully they are legible.

Conversation 1 - 'Dan'

   

This conversation didn't really give a great deal to work with, although it is quite funny. Whilst carrying out this form of research I've noticed it can be quite funny to transcribe very literally, every "um", "like", "ah" and so on. I also think that this kind of very literal transcription of, simply, people talking how they talk, could potentially contribute to a nice picture book, it just isn't really the route I'm wanting to go down. 

Conversation 2 - Emily

I found this conversation particularly funny when I looked back at it written down and thought for a moment that it might be quite funny to have a book with this particular passage written out, a line of it on each page for instance.

 

I think it would just be funny to document in a picture book, somebody really, really struggling to explain something. It also reminded me of a Michael Rosen poem which I liked very much when I was little, and which I still find funny. It was illustrated by Quentin Blake but I couldn't find the drawings he did for it unfortunately. His illustrations just depicted a young boy's face (presumably the person from whose perspective the poem was told) getting more and more screwed up with frustration every line of the poem, which goes like this:

I'll have a please sandwich cheese

No I mean a knees sandwich please
Sorry I mean a fleas sandwich please
No a please sandwich please No No -
I'll have a doughnut.

Conversation 3 - Dad

 

My dad said quite a lot of things, and things I agreed with, I considered investigating the blue pipes in Berlin he mentioned but decided I'd keep my book a little more abstract. He is interested in, and quite good at photography, so I liked what he said in regards to that, and in regards to a 'nice view'. I definitely continued to consider those things as I worked on the project. I liked very much what he said about a nice view being difficult to capture in a 2D image due to the fact that when you stand in that environment, your eyes move around and gain a more subconscious, or conscious even,  sense of being in that place and experiencing that space first hand.   

Overall I decided I wouldn't use these conversations as a direct theme for my book as not enough grabbed me. I did, however, keep certain things in mind, particularly some of things my dad mentioned.