Capture Captions-Creative Exercise 31

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Introduction

    Have you ever tried to describe something or someone without knowing what the actual name of the object or person is? I can tell you that I have and if I had to compare strengths and weaknesses, explaining something would be leaning more towards weaknesses! You stand there stuttering and blurting out a ton of ah’s, um’s, like’s, and you know what I’m saying’s, but you don’t actually get the point across! Someone might get lucky and guess the right answer, but the odds are they were thinking way out of the box. This exercise should help with this issue!

    “Capture Options” is the name of my next creative exercise. It is also out of the book “CREATIVE BOOT CAMP-GENERATE IDEAS IN GREATER QUANTITY & QUALITY IN 30 DAYS”, and it is written by Stefan Mumaw. This is a very interesting and random exercise.

    We are to take a random picture and display it so that we can sit down and view it. While we are looking at this crazy random photo, we are to take 10 minutes and write down as many captions as we can describing one object or one person in the photo without naming the actual person or object that was selected. We are allowed to reference the item without naming or we can call it by another name.

    The captions needs to be descriptive because this is the only thing that the viewer can see in regards to this random picture.

“Capture Captions” list:

    Antique brown speckled frog foundation that burns another object and releases relaxing beautiful scents into the air, resulting in white smoke and ash.

    Ancient frog holder that releases fragrant smoke through the head of the frog.

    Frog foundation that releases fragrant smoke commonly used in spiritual and religious ceremonies and practices.

Conclusion

    “Capture Captions” has been the most difficult creative exercise that I have done this month. I brainstormed and thought about what else the incense holder could be called, and I wasn’t coming up with many options. I would say this is a great exercise to expand your creativity due to the thought that you really need to put a lot more thought into it and come up with a unique way to explain what or who the object is. All in all, I am satisfied with the few options I did think of.

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