Creating a Story From Images

 In a group of myself, Georgia and Chem, we chose 5 extremely different images and were given the task at creating a story from them. Instead of going down the route of looking at them in great detail and developing a story from perhaps the more creative aspects of each photo, we went with taking each photo as we first interpreted them and came up with quite a comical tale.

Starting with the first photo of the old woman, we paired her up with the second photo of the fox and decided that she was cunning and sly - like a fox. We decided to show this literally on the photo by cutting out two eye holes in the page - as if someone was going to use it as a disguise when the spied on someone. We then moved onto the third photo, the old man walking down the street and paired it with the photo of the dice. This was developed into the old man being the previous woman's husband who had recently obtained a gambling problem (shown through the dice) and she was spying on him as she believed he was having an affair (he was, but with their money). We then concluded it with the last photo of the different pairs of scissors which we crumpled and ripped the paper of to portray that when the woman found out, she finished their relationship and cut him out of her life. 

Though we took the exercise and developed it into a more comical and less intellectual light - it was really interesting to hear other group's stories and how they linked up their images. It was quite surprising what different things people took from all the images and how many offers 5 simple images can give you as a basis to start a piece. I really enjoyed this exercise and it was also a nice starting point to start creating in my group - who I'd be working with for our little piece during our actual show. Using images was a really interesting way to start creating and finding the beginning of the piece and I will definitely use it in development for future projects.