On Thursday's class, we had to present an image and come up with 10 captions that altered the meaning of the image. The class was split into two groups and we took turns sharing our images. After sharing our images, we had to provide more captions so that there would be 10 great captions in total. The exercise was very fun and I found that I was frequently congratulated on my clever ideas.
The image that I presented was a scientist holding two handfuls of dead bat mulch. A few of the captions I had were "dinner's ready," "economy confetti," and "
Hollywood face cream, used by the stars!" One of the images presented by my classmates was a picture of very bright boots in assorted rainbow colors. Some of the ideas we gave were "official army attire," and "don't ask, don't tell." Some of photos were quite fun to do, such as a Jedi holding a lightsaber which I captioned "this is my small stick." Other images, however, required a lot of thought and were harder to produce ideas for quickly. When our professor noticed this, he gave us a new exercise. He showed us a coffee cup and told us to promote the fine arts program at our school using only that image. We all seemed a bit stumped at first, but once the group had ideas rolling, we kept it going.
This was an excellent exercise in brainstorming. Our professor helped us speed up the process by telling us to shout out the first thing that came to mind and to feel free to add on and make other people's ideas better. As artists, we will be working collaboratively on projects in our future careers and it is important to learn to contribute as well as strengthen existing ideas. One creative mind is good. Many creative minds are better.
descriptor collection
iterative: frequent or repeated
quixotic: (like Don Quixote) having impractical ideals, being on a unreachable pursuit
illogical: contradictory, not making any sense
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