Tasks

In the first two lessons after presentations we were given a small tasks. The first one that we got was to create a story. Every group got a 100 images and we needed to create at least 4 different stories using these pictures. From the first sight this task looked fun and easy, but it was harder than I thought. One of the stories that we created:

This story starts from the outside at night in the dark tunnel. Later it gets closer to the old house with an old door on which there is a lock. When you get inside the house, you can see how messy it is. While looking around you can see a table, when you get closer to it there is a scissors, stand of hair and a suicidal note. The person that lived there decided to leave this world. The last image is the light at the end of the tunnel, which symbolises death.
We could have used the same image at the end that we used at the beginning, that way that would be circular narrative.

The second task that we got was to find different cropping in one image. We were given different images and in groups we needed to mark on each image how many different ways of cropping there can be.

In this first image we found 3 more different ones. The first one is a couple sitting on the bench. The second one is 3 boys sitting on the rock, looks like two of them are older and they know everything here, whilst the younger boy, who is sitting back to other boys, looks alone and without friends. The third image is just a boy taking image of his classmates.

In this second picture we found at least 3 way of cropping. The first one would be guy sitting under the tree and another man running away from him for some reason. The second one is the same man sitting under the tree and another one holding a tree branch. It looks like an interesting scene and feels like something is just going to happen. And the last one is the man, who is holding the branch an the dog running away from him.

This task showed how different cropping can affect the story.