Each group was given the task of taking photos related to a list of descriptions. We had to think outside the box and explore the area looking for interesting objects to fit the descriptions. This gave us the chance to get to know our classmates. Given the short amount of time we had, it was a challenge to find objects which matched the description but I think that we worked well together and were able to come up with a creative response to the brief.
The list was:
A Colourful Object
A Weird Shape
Animation
Something that looks cool
Something that made you laugh today
Mystery Item
Pets
Something that starts with U
Recreate a meme
Teamwork
A Colourful Object
For our colourful object we chose these hanging umbrella outside commercial court. The bright rainbow colours really stood out an lit up the street and there is something really nice about the bright colours of an umbrella lighting up against the rain which can be associated with a darkened mood and rain.
A Weird Shape
We went to the the MAC art gallery to see if there was any interesting exhibits which we could photograph. There we saw this chair which looks to me like clay on a pottery wheel. This is definitely not a shape you see every day so I think it definitely fits the brief! It is functional as a chair as well which makes it even more interesting.
Animation
It was tough to find an animation throughout the city in only 45 minutes. We thought about using a bus stop advert, as well as visiting Belfast Exposed to see if there was an animation exhibitions on today. There was an exhibition by Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson but it was a photograph and video exhibition so we decided that this didn’t exactly fit the brief. We did however, take a photo of the word ‘animation’ written on the wall of the lab. We thought that this would be a little too boring however, so we decided to make it a little bit more interesting. Our group member Cloe did a short animation on procreate to bring some colour and life to the word animation which worked really well.
Something that looks cool
This was from the exhibition by Anne Tallentire. I thought that this was an interesting composition of shapes and colours and it was cool to visit an exhibition by a local artist.
Something that made you laugh today
There was a tour guide working in the Mac who was able to tell us a little bit about the exhibition. We had a conversation about the art pieces and she was interested to learn about our ice breaker task. Since we had such a pleasant conversation that I asked her if I could take a photograph with her to represent ‘Something that made you laugh today’.
Mystery Item
We found this chair which had a very funky pattern. We thought it could be applied to a few different categories, but I suggested that we could use it as a mystery item since it is a close up photograph and it is not immediately clear what the item is. (We also took another photograph to show the original item!)
Pets
For the topic of pets we decided to go with something a little bit out of the box. I have a tattoo of my dog Poppy, so we decided a photograph of her would fit the theme.
Something that starts with U
We struggled a little to think about what we could use to represent the letter U. Then we saw the model of the university of in the foyer of the building and we thought it would be a good example of the letter U without going for the ‘obvious’ choice of the university.
Recreate a meme
We had a couple of ideas about what to do for the meme, (including the Spider-man pointing meme) but decided on the Eric Andre ‘Let me in’ meme.
Teamwork!
For our teamwork photo we decided to go with a stop frame jump. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get all of us in the photo because one of us had to take the photograph but we still had to work together to get the photograph.
Overall I think we did a pretty good job in responding to the scavenger hunt brief. We tried to be creative in our response and find some really out of the box photographs and I feel like we did a good job. We were able to learn a little bit about each other and practice working in a team and under time pressure.