Picture Story Exercise
The first online exercise you will complete is the Picture Story Exercise. The exercise will take approximately 25 minutes to complete. You must complete the entire exercise in one sitting, so please do not begin the exercise until you have enough time to do so. Be sure you have your participant id and username before beginning the exercise. You will be asked to enter this information for each story. For this exercise, you will be shown pictures one at a time. Basically, the idea is just to write a complete story about each picture – an imaginative story with a beginning, middle, and an end. Try to portray who the people in each picture might be, what they are feeling, thinking, and wishing for. Try to tell what led to the situation depicted in each picture and how everything will turn out in the end. At the top of each page there are some guiding questions – these should be used as guides to writing your story. You do not need to answer them specifically. Look at the picture for some seconds first. Then click the “Click here to begin writing” button and start writing whatever story comes to your mind. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling, punctuation – they are of no concern here. You will have about 4 minutes for each story. There are a total of 6 pictures in this task. You will be prompted to enter your participant id and username for each story you write. ~ Once you are ready to begin the Picture Story Exercise, CLICK HERE! ~
Bling Bling Study, 2007