A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

An Electrifying Meal (final)

Attempt #1 Electicution

Attempt #2 Pranks

Attempt #3 Drunk Driving 

This project was particularly difficult but also exciting. The idea is to show a story beginning middle and end using only pictures and no words. I began by trying to think of exciting endings to stories, and then working backwards. I drew sketches of ideas I had such as someone being electrocuted, someone drunk driving, and someone pulling a prank on someone else. I tried to think of endings that would make someone want to know what was going to happen next, or shock someone (no pun intended). It was easy to think of the first idea, then came the struggle of thinking of something both creative and practical. This brought me back to learning about design thinking, and going through the steps. So I thought really big, like a ten car pile up, and then brought it down to something I could realistically take  a picture of, such as someone drinking then driving. 

So I began with taking a picture of the last scene in my story, and working backwards from there. How would these people have ended up in these situations? How did they get there? This was the hard part was figuring out how to create the situations in 3 photos only. It was very difficult to make sure that the story I had in my head was being conveyed in my images. I wanted so badly to be able to use words or even video, but had to work on taking the best still images I could. 

My best story ended up being the electrocution story but it needed refining. So I went to Good Will and bought a cool antique fork that I found with embroidering on the handle. Then I tried to find a more interesting plug to use so I used a power strip because it has multiple plugs. I had to set the scene, a man eating and not paying attention goes to stick his form in his pasta and sticks it in the socket on accident. A simple scene turns into a crime scene in a mater of seconds!

Trial and error was definitely the theme of this project. I would try different lighting camera angles, props and set ups until I thought I had accurately conveyed my story the way I wanted to. Electrocution is obviously sad but there is something amusing about the set up of the situation.