Lab Session 26/10/11

In today's lab session, we completed many exercises to get us thinking of ways we can generate ideas. The first exercise was to write down in 5 minutes an event that happened to us in the past two weeks, detailing as many visual aspects of it as possible. Below, I wrote about the recent event where my iPhone got stolen from my bag whilst I was shopping in Uxbridge. After writing this down, we then created a story board for it. This was quite difficult as you had to draw yourself looking from an outside person's perspective. You also had to pick what the most important points were in your story before drawing the scene from an interesting angle.

  

In the storyboard, the first frame was an image of me filling in my lottery numbers. I put emphasise on the sign which read £20million. At the end of the story, this could be quite comical as that money would have come in very handy! The second frame is of me trying on a dress in the mirror. Although it wasn't there, in the mirror I wrote the word 'fabulous!' to show how I was having a positive day and feeling good about my new purchase. Frame three is an image of me and my friend laughing, looking relaxed and casual having lunch In frame 4, it shows me and my friend heading towards Wilkinsons while in frame 6, it shows someones stealing from my bag. I decided to draw an 'Extra Value' sign to emphasise how inexpensive the items in the aisle were. It's ironic that I should lose such an expensive phone in one of the best value aisle of the shop. The last frame is of me close up with my hand to my head, thinking how stupid and unaware I was to not notice!

The second exercise was quite similar yet instead of a recent event we have to remember one of our dreams. My one was quite terrifying in a sense there was a character, which appears to resemble the woman from 'The Ring', that was approaching me slowly and I had no way of escaping as I couldn't find my keys to open the door. I enjoyed this exercise yet I found it quite hard to remember my recent dreams; this one was from many years back.

Our last drawing exercise was the one that I enjoyed the most. We had to write down the first words that came to mind when a sentence was read out. Sometimes the words would be completely random and nothing you would ever have come up with without this sudden impulsiveness. We then had to create a story using all of these words which at first seemed to be extremely difficult but later on became quite interesting. I created a scene with objects in it that I would never have originally put together. I really want to look into this way of generating ideas more as I feel it is highly effective.