Surveillance Escape

For this project we started looking at CCTV in different areas of London, followed by stereotyping people then interviewed via video and voice recording the public from business people, security, early 20′s men and women, pass goers and shop owners. Taking photographs and videos of Canary Wharf and Shoreditch and of the people who were there helped us with our research. We then proceeded to look at dazzle makeup because the broken up shapes painted on to your face helped stop facial recognition. We painted my face and we went around my University to many of the cameras to test out their system. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to get the footage of me with the dazzle makeup dressed in black. So we decided to buy an outfit that was so visible that no one wanted to look at me making me less visible. I walked around New Cross into shops and pubs to see my self on CCTV and see peoples reactions. We gathered that many people were shocked and didn’t want to look at me. We then decided to change our idea on cctv, stereotyping and the dazzle makeup to looking at Privacy is a currency and where Facebook has taken over everything. We bought various food items and labelled them for example “access to all of your phone for 2 minutes” “access to your photographs for 1 minute” “access to all of your social media sites for 3 minutes” exchanging access to your personal life in favour of a chocolate bar. We ended up designing and producing new labels to replace on current food items to have the facebook brand all over it. This was to show a Dispotian world where facebook system has taken over how we buy. This film is my final outcome which focuses on escaping CCTV by using dazzle makeup, disguised and tactics to try and beat the system.