For the first exercise we were asked to look at a series of "mug shots" and determine who were writers, and who were criminals. As you can see, my team didn't do so well; we didn't have much reasoning behind why we chose each one. First of all we thought of stereotypes, when we saw the men with glasses we assumed they were writers, we also imagined tropes of a criminal, a strong, defiant look, possibly dead looking eyes. Stereotypes hugely influenced our decisions and it didn't work out well. I think this was the point of the exercise, our instant look of a photograph influences how we read and interpret it. Once our minds are stuck on an idea or thought it can be difficult to nudge that thought.
Exercise 2
For the second exercise we were given a few images and told to crop where we thought appropriate, the main reasoning behind the crops to draw attention to the main action of the photograph. When creating our own narratives we will have to think of what's relevant in the image, if there's something unneeded in the frame the audience won't know and will read into everything. When a writer sets a scene in a book they don't include background characters, and if there are any props in a film scene they usually hold some kind of significance in terms of creating more of a personality for a character. The crops below tighten the images, which makes them more effective.
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