When I think of Reflections in terms of memories, I think of how we remember places. Have you ever tried to remember a house you used to live in? How accurate do you think that depiction is? This is what interests me about the glitching idea, as it can demonstrate that in a randomized way, as you would remember it. However I feel like the photographs themselves should hold some sort of meaning, some sort of precious value to really demonstrate the loss to the audience, and I just don't think a stock photography style will do that.
I thought about trying to get my family to re-create family photographs that we have, however I don't think I have time to go home and do that. So I still had a think about how I could perhaps use the wealth of photographs my family has, some of which are over 100 years old. I am currently thinking now about perhaps doing digital restoration on old photographs to colour, and changing the colour scheme of those photographs to differentiate details of the event, then glitching them to create a series of almost identical memories.
I've had a short play with this idea using a picture of my grandad when he was in his 20's:
I firstly used the crop and straighten tool to get rid of borders and straighten the image.
I then sharpened the image to get rid of unwanted blur from the camera not being held steady/ not on a tripod.
I then went in the levels of each colour channel to drag the low and high end markers to where the information starts so that the picture looks less faded and the contrasts are much more prominent.
I then went used the magic wand tool to start selecting areas to colourize, and used hue and saturation to add colour in. I did this quickly, but it still took a long time which concerns me slightly about this idea, however I like the effect it may give.
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