Does sharing images of this place create connection, commodify it, or both? When sharing theses images we have to explore the sociological and cultural impact of Brick lane when uploading them onto social media. Sharing theses images can build a community, knowledge, culture appreciation and emotion. This is due to each picture symbolising how society views our world. For instance when exploring Bangla Town, there were many portraits that showed different political leaders and the way each art was style it had shown how the user felt about our leaders in todays society. It captures ones views and emotions and even allow other people in the community to feel the same way and feel the same connection.
Being able to see the connection between shop owners promoting a part of their heritage to the people of Brick Lane to bring people together shows pride and deep meaning as social media can be a platform to showcase the reality of our society and how easy it is to physically join and understand on and another.
Commodifying means being able to turn something non-physical like culture, human identity or the neighbourhood of Bircklane vibes into a commercial product to be sold or consumed. In this case being able to post pictures on Instagram or upload TikTok videos about Bricklane can help boost its popularity and even allow the public to post “pleasing” and “asethetic” clips to show users the beauty of the area and how much more their is to london than most common tourist attraction. This can lead to public to really dive into the beauty an diversity of london and allow other to truly see how people capture reality into art.
Each picture me and my partner took we ensure to make sure that each picture could look like it could go viral or social media worthy for people to see, as theses pictures allow people to feel motivated to go to Brick Lane. Majority of the time when we are on social media it is clear that most users see picture of videos that are very aesthetic and are pretty because, it draws their attention of how nice its and encourages them to go to certain places. This is the exact way me and my partner wanted to promote Brick Lane, we wanted each and every pictures to have a meaning of the culture behind it as well as making sure its worthy enough to be viral online.
Being able to to take theses picture and video were were able to do both, commodification and create a connection this is due to the fact that each trail we were on allowed us to explore Brick Lane as a whole and explore every market, society, identity and creativity within the community. The neighbourhood not only allowed us to connect people within the same minority and allow them to feel at home and welcomed but, we were also able to capture how individuals was able to make their culture available to everyone.
Not only were we able to capture pictures but me and my partner were able to create a video containing all the pit stops and tourist attractions of Brick Lane, I had the opportunity to film and do a deep, insightful research for my voice over as I wanted to make sure people watching understood the history of Brick Lane and what it is all about. My partner did an amazing job of editing and creating collages of the pictures we took and really made an impactful video for everyone to see.
