Stonehouse - the site revisited

After todays session I decided I needed to go back to the area in Union Street we have been looking at to better document what is there. By doing this it will mean we have some information to go by when going down to the area to look at the audiences available.  Our task now is to document the movement and type of people in the area to discover what kind of audience we are able to target with the projection.  This will then help us to define the location of the projection more closely with the audience we choose to target.  The projection will be carried out between the hours of 4 and 6 using a van containing a generator and also the projector and so I also considered these conditions today by going to the site between these hours.  This allowed me to find out how effective the projection would be in terms of how dark the area was.  The following are the images that I took today of the area demonstrate a number of different things I observed:

Firstly my observations raised the issue of what kind of access the van will need to be able to do the projection.  This is because it occurred to me that Union Street has very few areas where vehicles are allowed to stop and so his may have a big restriction on whether the projection can be done in this area or not.  I also observed that there are a few locations where the van could stop alongside areas where people may cluster as there are a few bus stops in the Union Street location.  The area that we have chosen is lit by a number of street lights, but the projection should still be strong enough to be seen over these. 
Whilst down at the site I also observed how many people and what types of people there were around at the time I was there.  Although the area was not hugely busy, there was however a relatively consistent flow of people along that stretch of Union Street.  The people I passed were most commonly shoppers of some sort, either who had been into the centre of Plymouth or to the supermarket on the edge of the site.  A lot of the people were family groups which was quite interesting as I did not expect this area to have this type of population.  There were also a number of individual pedestrians such as business men.
My observations also demonstrated that there are a number of possible areas that can be easily projected on, although this is dependent on the freedom of the van that the projection will be done from.  The movement of people around the area now needs to be more closely monitored to discover what specific audiences are available and what locations will be best suited to target these people with the projection.