Assignment 2: Experiment 2D

The fourth Image

Experiment 2

Next, we have to think of a way in which to get everyone to come up with the same story. I decided to aim for a story along the lines of the following: 'Drive on motorway to deliver the pear to the kitchen' + 'Person travels home from work goes in to kitchen gets a pear and eats it' This is because these two answers are quite simple and a number of the stories given were quite similar but had differences in the order in which they linked the images. This time I think I may add a fourth image and also ask each person to link the images in a specific order as shown below:

I was unsure as to whether I needed to specify a ‘person’ who a few people refer to or perhaps the place where the pear comes from?

I decided that since most people seemed to imagine/name/suggest a person in their story that I would clarify that person as a businessman. The story I will try and get people come up with is that 'A businessman travels home from work on the motorway, when he gets home he goes in to the kitchen and gets/eats a pear'

Experiment 2 results:

Jon: The business man is rushing home after his flight was held up. He speeds down the motorway to try & get to his wife in time. He gets to the house. His wife is nowhere to be found. The kidnappers have left a note in the kitchen. They've taken all the man's food except a single pear. It's a Sunday night, the supermarkets are all closed, all he's eaten all day is plane food, he has to eat- can he possibly trust a kidnapper's pear??

Lisa: Man drives home from work and when he gets home he goes in to the kitchen and eats a pear.

Sam: The person in picture 1 is calling to request a lift which is late, this links to picture 2 where the driver is battling through rush hour traffic, in order to finish off some decorating in the dining room before making fruit salads by cutting up the pear.

Gina: The man leaves his office late at night on the phone, finishes the conversation gets in the car drives home on the motorway (commuter) then he sits down and eats a pear.

Sarah: This is a person working in a busy city-hence the briefcase. He was using public transport due to congestion on the roads of Britain. He finally got home after a busy day and sat on a chair in the kitchen and ate a pear, essential vitamins after his day of hard work.

Mum: Solitary businessman, drives down the motorway, gets home. Goes in to his kitchen feeling peckish has a pear out of the fruit bowl.

Clive: A man leaving work rings his wife on the phone, drives home goes in to the kitchen, realises his wife has left him. (There is only one pear not a pair)

Again not everyone came up with the same story, some people seem to have more imagination than others. Perhaps this is because they see more meanings than others or have a different background, more interests for example. Only 4/7 came up with similar stories. I think this may be as a result of 2 errors. I think i may have added the wrong image, i think similar to a member of my group i should have added a supermarket or building as she had much more success. The businessman turned out to be less clear than i intended and perhaps even further complicated the story. I also may be should of asked a different set of people as i accidentally missed this point when reading the instructions. If i had asked a different set of people they couldn't have been influenced by the story they came up with for experiment 1.