Monday, December 1, 2008

after gillian wearing


Our task was to go to a public place and ask people what they were thinking and ask them to write it on a piece of paper so that we could take a picture of them with their thoughts. We also asked them for email addresses.We decided to go to Tescos in Selhurst as we assumed it would be a busy public piece. We started to ask random people making sure that we gave them the purpose of this exercise and also assured them it was strictly for educational purposes. We found that people were very anxious to participate and as soon as we mentioned taking a picture we found they were less inclined to do so. We tried different tactics of approaching people and found that if we mentioned the BRIT School earlier on in the conversation then we got a positive result.I found this research interesting as people seemed to use the excuse they were too busy. The task would have taken them three minutes and I could not believe that people couldn’t even give up that amount of time in their day. However 13 people did participate making it a very worthwhile task. by Luke Jonas Yr13 BTEC National art and design

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