Tuesday 23 February 2010

Assignment 2

(FIG 1)

(FIG 4)

(FIG 2) (Alone)

(FIG 3)



For this assignment I was asked to chose three pictures at random and ask a selection of people to come up with a story that linked the pictures together in no particular order. here are a list of the stories.

Female, 20, Interior And Environmental Design

A cat gets left at home while its owners go for a day out to a seaside fairground.

Male, 20, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat stuck on a Ferris wheel at the seaside.

Male, 20, Time Based Art

A cat in a green velvet glove which had been left on a Ferris wheel going so fast that it fell off and on to the beach.

Female, 20, Speech Therapy

A cat escapes from home and goes on an adventure to a fairground at the beach. It has a go on the big wheel and jumps off onto the beach.

Female, 19, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat is stranded at an old derelict carnival at the seaside.

Female, 20, Law

A cat ran along a beach while a fair ground was there and saw the big wheel.

Male, 45, Planning Consultant

A cat got lost at Blackpool pleasure beach.

I was then asked to add another picture to try and sway the story towards one that I had been told. I decided to go for the first one I was told. The following are the stories I was told once I added the extra picture.


Female, 20, Interior And Environmental Design

A cat gets left at home while its owners go for a day out to a seaside fairground.

Male, 20, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat owns a caravan at the beach where there was a fairground.

Male, 20, Time Based Art

A cat's owners went on holiday and left him at home where he watched a scary film about a haunted Ferris wheel.

Female, 20, Speech Therapy

A cat is lost in a caravan park and tries to find a way home but then he bumps into some Pikies.

Female, 19, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat is locked away on its own in a caravan while its owners are at a carnival.

Female, 20, Law

A cat is left at home while its owners go on holiday in a caravan.

Male, 45, Planning Consultant

A cats owners went away on a caravan holiday leaving it at home alone.

It seems that adding another picture has in some cases successfully swayed some of the stories but not all of them. Will adding a word to one of the pictures help them all come up with the same story? To test this out I added the word " Alone" to (FIG 2).

Male, 20, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat who was home alone decided to go on a Ferris wheel by the beach

Male, 20, Time Based Art

A family of cats from Estonia left their cousin cat at home while they went on holiday because he meowed weird.

Female, 20, Speech Therapy

A cat escapes from home and goes on a holiday to the beach fairground.

Female, 19, Interior and Environmental Design

A cat who lives on a deserted island is upset because its family have gone away on holiday without it.

Female, 20, Law

A cat is left at home while its owners go on holiday in a caravan.

Male, 45, Planning Consultant

A cats owners went away on a caravan holiday leaving it at home alone.

It seems that in this case adding the word hadn't affected any ones story in the way I had been trying to. However it might have had I used a different more specific word. Its interesting how easily you can influence peoples minds to think in the same way as you by tweaking certain things. I wonder if I had kept the photographs in a specific order would it have influenced their stories further.


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