Scavenger Hunt Assignment / due Oct. 19

Scavenger Hunt Project

Pick 1 of the following hunts for the basis of your Scavenger Hunt Project. Read through the instructions, and answer all questions that are posed. Record your 30 specific images and 30 specific sounds on a separate sheet of paper, and turn it in with your Scavenger Hunt Project on October 12. If you would like to continue to develop your Scavenger Hunt assignment into a final project for the class, you have that option. You may also use one of the other hunts not initially selected as a starting point for a final project idea, or you can come up with an idea of your own.

1. The Pace and Rhythm of Mood

Be on the lookout for one experience that either suddenly or slowly alters your mood or alters your life? This experience can be small, for example tasting cayenne pepper for the first time or a brand new hair cut. In fact, the smaller the experience, the more unique and dynamic is likely to be. Once you identify this experience, record the following: How do you react at first? Ask yourself what emotion you’re feeling? Anger, Fear, Joy, Anxiety, Surprise, Excitement, Depression, etc? What do you do see, hear, touch, and taste when you’re feeling this way? What kind of pace is created with your glances, movements, hearing, touching, or tasting? Then how did you react once the news, event, thought, or change in mood has time to sink in? How does your vision of the world shift? What images do you remember? For instance, what does the sky look like? How long do you look at it? Then what do you look at next? What do you hear? What are the rhythms of your body, facial expressions, movement between spaces, and interactions with other people like? If you had to make a video depicting this change of perspective, mood, or circumstances, what images would you want to include? What sounds would you include? How would you show the transformation of your experience through time?

Write down 30 specific images or “shots” that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.
Write down 30 specific sounds that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.


2. The Effects of Weather

How does weather affect you, someone you know, or the environment around you? Find one object, place, or person (perhaps yourself) that can illustrate the effects of weather. If you can catch the environment’s effects (sun, wind, erosion, rain, pressure, stress, etc.) in action, include these as well. If you can’t catch them in action, try to determine what type of weather produced the effects you can observe. Next, determine the effects of weather on your mood or on the mood of the person, object or place experiencing the elements. What are some of the changes that the weather has caused on emotion, thought patterns or rhythm (in a body, object or environment)? What does the weather force you to do? What does the weather do to change an object or place? Write down as many details about your reactions, moods, and feelings as you can. Or, what kind of feelings do you suppose the object, place, or person has about what’s affected it or him/her? What kind of pace is created with your glances, movements, hearing, touching, or tasting? What changes as the experience moves through time? How can you translate these observations into images and sounds to breathe life into a portrait of this kind of experience?

Write down every detail you can see, hear, taste, smell and touch. Be as specific as you possibly can. For example, instead of describing a “sidewalk warped by water”, go on to describe the warp itself…it’s shape, color, texture, mood, etc.

Write down 30 specific images or “shots” that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.

Write down 30 specific sounds that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.


3. Childhood Hunt

Who or what do you miss from your childhood? Try to activate your memory using all of your five senses, and write down a list of details. Try to recall everything you can remember about this person, object, or place. Where is this person, object, or place now? Visit the person, object, or place again, and write down a list of new details. How do you see it or him or her or them now? What has shifted or changed in the person, object, or place? What has shifted or changed in you? Think about the difference in pace from the past to the present moment. What kind of pace or rhythm do you remember experiencing with this childhood person, object, or place? What kind of pace is created with your fresh glances, movements, hearing, touching, or tasting around this missed person, object, or place now? What has changed as your experience has moved through time?

Write down 30 specific images or “shots” that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.

Write down 30 specific sounds that could express the details you’ve discovered from answering the above questions.