Assignment 2 - images

Assignment 2 was a fun and pretty simple continuation from the previous assignment when looking/analysing photographs. The main focus within the images was most importantly about what images say/don't say and how/what texts portray the meanings. The topic was still a relation back to the theme of semiotics previously explored in semester 1. 

As this assignment was also a group project, I decided to keep in contact with the girl I met throughout assignment 1 as I felt we communicated and overall worked very together. The jist of the project was to basically pick three random images (text free) and to present them to a group of non art related or design studies students. We used www.sxc.hu and clicked on the 'Randomizer' link to produce us with images neither of us had any relation to. The chosen students were then asked to come up with a story from the three images. The three images could be used in any order whatsoever and could be the weirdest and craziest story ever as long as the 3 images were related in some sort of way. 

After experiencing a wide range of feedback, myself and my partner added a forth image and a word to go along with it. Using this material, we then chose a story of our own in which we hoped the viewers could then come up with the same or as similar of a story as possible.

the images are as follows...

Our main topic was the idea of the time passing quickly through life and the added word 'four' at the bottom was to relate to the four seasons within each year.

I chose to ask my flatmates to write me a story each as they all study different courses and share separate interests from one another which I felt could bring an interesting result.....

Eamon Keane - 3rd year Law student

- The story is about a guy going on a walk one winter. He was old. He was reminded of a summer he spent in the Caribbean. When he thought back on all these years, he realised how much time had gone by.......and for the first time in his life, he realised that he was dying of age and the image coming to his head was the leaves dying on Autumn trees. He gazed out on the landscape and realised there is four seasons in life and he is now entering the autumn of his existence. 

Eamonn Mccann - 3rd year Dentist

- The story is one much similar to Bernards watch. There is a man who has the gift of time travel. He is an adventurous and very quiet young chap who seeks for new experiences. His most favourite thing to do is to time travel throughout the four seasons to pick up on new discoveries. 

James Kinane - 2nd year Medicine student

I hear there is four seasons. My favourite thing to do in Winter is ski and the beach in summer. In Autumn I like to look at the pretty leaves.

For an experiment I also asked my flat mate Ross Bloomer who is a 3rd year Illustration student, to see if he could come up with anything more creative or if his intake on these images matches the stories of students in other course sectors. 

- The story is about a guy who felt he never had enough time in the world. 4 seasons past, he noticed the leaves changing colour and longed for a day where he could live in an island where time did not exist.