For our video, we had to interact with the public by causing diversions in the street. We had string attached to pillars, blocking off two walkways in which the public interacted with as they had to physically avoid walking through it, the majority of people just avoided it and observed it with a confused expression, a few people 'pinged' the string, and eventually a girl untied the string, pulls it and trips up over the trial almost falling over then takes it away with her.
In another example, we had a vodka bottle placed in the middle of a street, the majority again just avoided it, giving strange looks especially as it was around 10am. It was then kicked by a passerby unintentionally. The one however that grabbed the most attention was the balloon we tied up to the traffic light pole right outside a college. One guy goes up and touches it, many gaze in confusion until the climax where inevitably the balloon is popped by a boys' bare hands and he walks away, looking confusingly aggravated by this incident, despite it being a gloomy day and the usual associations with balloons being celebratory, especially this colourful one. He also has no prior interaction with it in that he walks up to it immediately and pops it, as if frustrated at the injection of entertainment.
For the mostpart of this experiment, the vast majority of people just seemed annoyed, seemingly as these objects stopped them from leading out their normal routine, you don't expect routes to be blocked off especially by string that seems pointless and understandably a nuesance, the balloon however had the opposite reaction to what I initially thought it would have. It seems people would rather not have any interjection to their normal routine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=betoD9BknSM
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