Welcome to Day #2 of The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Series!
Part 1 of The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Day 2:
(Psst - Hey Scrapbookers: The videos overlap a bit so you can fast forward a bit through the second one. Improv and scrapbooking and making videos about these concepts are not perfect - and that is OK! I'm not letting technical difficulties keep me from having a bit of fun.)
Part 2 of the video:
SCRAPBOOKING IMPROV TIP: TAKING IT THE WRONG WAY: Think of a word and use it in the wrong way. For example, if some one is talking about dinner reservations you could misinterpret them to mean the kind of reservations or hesitation you might have about bungee jumping. This improvisational comedy technique is known as "taking it the wrong way" and it is a fun exercise to try especially with your kids.
The improv principle of "taking it the wrong way" was the inspiration for today's Hunger Games Challenge. The improv principle of listening and reacting to what your scene partners are saying and the principle of staying in the present moment were also at play when I created this page, as was the improv principle that you don't keep your own ideas "too precious" you go with the flow of the group:
For example: I had a "precious" idea. This morning, I thought I'd start each day with one of the Districts starting with #12 descending down to #1. Each District in The Hunger Games had an industry and I thought I could take inspiration from those industries like fishing, textiles, war, lumber etc. The main character, Katniss Everdeen's home district is #12 and the industry is coal since, in this dystopian post apocalyptic world, it is located in what was once Appalachia in North America. I was sort of deciding about whether to start in at District #1 and work out to #12 or vice versa so I asked my family at breakfast "Should I scrapbook about Lumber or Coal? " just to see if they had any thoughts. {Here's where I went "improv" and discarded my "precious idea" and listened to what my "scene partners" were saying and I reacted to that instead.} To my surprise, they did. They each had different thoughts - my son thought I was talking about Lego's Ninjago named Cole and he brought out the minifig to show me; my daugther thought I was talking about our friend's daughter Nicole; and Charlie, playing along I think, suggested I might be talking about his cousin, Penni Cole. Then I suggested that maybe I was talking about the kind of coal that Santa brings when children are naughty. Here is the collage with text I made in Picasa demonstrating this morning's conversation:
STEP 1: Think of a word you can "take the wrong way" and use it in a layout. You can use a word in its incorrect form. Yesterday I talked about high school English Class with Mrs. Rideout and she did this exercise with us, we had vocabulary words each week and we'd have to write definition appropriate sentences for all of them except one; we'd each have to take a word and use it incorrectly in a sentence. I remember a couple of the sentences quite specificially:
"Hey! Stop that! European all over my shoe."
"The figure skater finished her routine and looked at the judges and whispered to herself hopefully: Benign! Benign!"
It is a fun and silly exercise that is easily applied to scrapbooking. Seriously, try it.
STEP 2: Find Photos that Support Your Wrong Way Word. I think that you are most likely not going to have a photo displaying a word used in the wrong context - although if you do - then kudos to you - use that. More likely, you'll have to get a bit creative with your photo interpretation of how you are using a word incorrectly. This is the time to play, think out side of the box of what you originally took the photo about and use it in a different way. So improv. So fun.
I used all the different definitions of the word coal and found a head shot of each member of my family and created a grid photo collage and then wrote each family member's definition over the photo. Otherwise, all these photos would never had ended up on the same page. To add some consistency, I converted most of the photo collage to black and white but kept a pop of color on a photo of my family at Appalachian Ski Mountain - the original thought behind the word of the day: Coal.
STEP 3: Put your Page Together and Try to Use Embellishments that Support Your Theme. I used a map from our trip to Appalachian Ski Mountain. I also used a bit of patterned paper with a picture of a bird since that refers to the Mockingjays in The Hunger Games books.
STEP 4: SHARE! Post a comment with a link to your page, I would love to see it and hear about how you used a word incorrectly! There is a flickr group called "The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenges" so you can post your layout there if you don't have a blog. Can't wait to see what you make!
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