These are images of my rough sketch of my idea which I have scanned in. You can see how I have drawn each room to look different, where one looks nice, and the other looks grim. And I have put the two photos together to show how I drew it (double page in an A4 sketch book), and to show that the two rooms would be close to each other, maybe even directly next to each other separated only by a thin wall. I like that I included a lot of detail in the drawings when I did, because it means that, with it being so clear and simple- already drawn out and exactly how I intended it, it's not something that I've had to draw again. Unfortunately, the image on the right got scanned a bit dodgy for some reason, but if you look carefully, you can see that I drew nailed wooden boards on the wall on the left there, symbolising a boarded up window, and perhaps a lack of freedom. The same window, although not boarded up, symbolising life, is also in the left image. Two different worlds, two different realities.

These screen-shots show me using Gimp to edit the image of the TV set I chose. I have erased the screen so that it is transparent, with the plan of somehow editing my video and putting it so that it looks like it is playing inside the tv set. I'm quite proud of managing to quickly figure out how to do that using gimp, considering I didn't have any instructions.

For some reason, when I go to save the image, it does not give me the choice of saving it as a pdf file, and iphoto does not recognize it when I save it as a gimp file. Also, I could not find anywhere in imovie where to import a photo to use, so to my frustration, I have been unable to edit the edited photo of the tv-set and my video together. It's annoying, because it would have been closer to what my idea for my installation piece is. But if you just use your imagination, and imagine that the video is playing within a tv, that works too. I suppose the real tricky part would have been to make it look like the tv set is in a room, but that just would have involved another photo. I think the tv set would have at least make it seem a little as if you are there instead of sat in front of your own tv, computer or phone watching it off youtube.

This is a screen-shot I have taken after I have edited my video. As you can see, there are the imported videos are at the bottom, and the video being edited is at the top. I used imovie for this. It did the job well enough. One thing I am not satisfied with though, and realised only too late is that on some of my slips, the picture is extremely narrow. I thought it would go away once the video was exported, but it's stuck like that, and I think it looks quite bad. It's not how I wanted the footage to look, and certainly not how I would present footage as an actual instillation piece in a gallery. I think the mistake has something to do with whether my ipod (which I used to record my own clips) was horizontal or vertical at the time of recording. The Palestinian street-dancers clip is fine, so I think I must have shot with the ipod horizontally, but I cannot be sure.

I found this really cool photo of a tv set close-up and thought I could use it for my example video. I wanted to download photoshop, but it costs a fortune, and I'm uncertain of the complications of getting/using it other ways, so I downloaded GIMP; a free image manipulation programme. It's like a free photoshop, except for the fact that it's simply just now as good. I only really discovered for myself what the differences and similarities are though- after downloading it and seeing for myself.

This is the video I have created using videos of mine, and other people's youtube videos I have found and liked. It shows what I would have playing on one of the televisions. This video shows happy videos, so when someone watches it, hopefully, it would evoke some sort of positive emotion within them, and this would show on their face without them realising.