Assignment 2

Activity B&C

I found three random images for www.sxc.hu and printed them off. I then asked several different people from different age groups and occupations to make a short story from these images. My first three images were a bride, a squirrel and some cards.Here are my results:

Male - 20 - Engineer
While the groom played poker an infestation of ravenous grey squirrels set about the buffet, and the bride, upset,ran down to the beach to contemplate how it was all her husband to be's fault.

Female - 45 - Teaching Assistant
Soon after she was married the bride realised she had made a huge mistake. She thought about jumping off the cliff into the sea, but instead stole the money her husband won at poker, bought a cottage in the woods and lived among the squirrels.

Male - 18 - Engineer
Bride was away to get married but her partner stood her up and went to the casino to play blackjack instead. So she killed a squirrel.

Female - 20 - college student
There was a bride who was stood up on her wedding day by her husband to be, who never ever came back from his stag night in Las Vegas. As lonely and upset as she was, she decided to get on with her life and moved to the country.

Female - 13 - Pupil
The bride was playing poker on her hen night with her friends. She got drunk and bought a squirrel. The groom never showed up to the wedding so she ran away to spain with her squirrel and never came home.

Male - 43 - Police Officer
The bride to be found out her husband was a ganster on her wedding day. He was found out by the British police for cheeting at the casino and was jailed for fraud. The bride then called the wedding off as she wanted nothing to do with him anymore.

I think these are all really intresing, although they were all really similar. I think it is quite interesting how each of there stories relates back to there occupation in a way. Also the ages and the genders. I personally think that all the female versions are a bit more believablethan the males.

Activity D

I then decided to use the second story, written by a 45 year old female Teaching Assistant, as my target story. I found an image of a lady stealing some money as I thought this would relate best. I then asked a different group of people to interpret the images. Here are some of my results:

Female - 21 - Waitress
The bride was about to get married in Spain but instead she stole the money that her and her husband won at the casino and moved to a small cottage in the countryside and lived happily ever after.

Male - 21 - Student
There was a bride who was stood up on her wedding day by her husband who had ran away with loads of money that he won playing poker. The bride jamp off a cliff and her body was found at the side of a lake in the country, with all the squirrels and different kinds of animals eating it.
Male - 68 - Retired
A selfish bride decided to stand her husband up on his wedding day because she got lucky at the casino and won a load of cash at her hen party. She ran away to mexico with all the money and her ex-fiancee had nowhere to live, so he found an abandoned hut in the woods.

Female - 20 - Bartender
the bride dressed up in disguise and went to the casino. She was playing with fake money but because she was drunk she didnt think anything of it and ended up winning thousands. The next day she felt really guilty and couldnt live with herself so she jumped off a cliff on her wedding morning and left her dirty money with her husband and there pet squirrel.

I think this activity went quite well. They all came up with similar stories. They all got the fourth picture spot on about the money being stolen, in most cases. I didnt put them in the right order, But i dont think it would of made much of a difference as they were all along the same lines, the money being stolen, the running away and the casino. Although I think people didnt really know what to say about the squirrel picture. That one came up with a few different stories.

Activity E

I then started to add text to the images. First of all I added one word to go with my origanal three images, to help tell my target story. I added the word 'steal' This didnt really help at all as people were coming up with all sorts of different things such as "the bride stole her wedding dress" and "They stole a squirrel." Everything was going a bit off track so I added one word to each picture, For the bride picture I added, 'stole,' for the cards I added 'money,' and for the squirrel I added 'lived.'
This really surprised me as more and more people were coming up with the same idea, They wernt 100% correct but they was pretty similar. I Found this Experiment really intresting and thought it was intrersting how different people who study different things or have different carrers or hobbies will, most of the time, connect thier personal lifestyle and use it in thier own story.