Creative Stations

🧭 Plot Summary

Creative work has no answer key. Two people can look at the same picture and disagree about it. That makes it hard to say whether one AI tool is better than another, or whether the last change you made to your prompt helped. In this activity you find a way to tell.

You write one brief and decide, before you start, how you'll check the result. Then you run the same brief through at least three stations, such as a writing tool, an image tool and a sound tool, changing one thing at a time and logging every round. At the end you compare the stations and write down only what your logs can support.

What you'll do in this activity

• Write one creative brief with a theme, a mood, two must-includes and one thing to avoid.
• Turn the brief into yes/no criteria, and keep the mood as a taste you rate on its own.
• Run the same brief through at least three stations (words, image, sound or a build), pasting it exactly as written in round 1.
• Change one thing per round, log what happened, and tag every miss.
• Read your logs to see which changes mattered, which didn't, and which you can't credit.
• Compare the stations, say whose decisions were whose, and write only the claims your logs can support.

Ground rules

• Use only the tools your teacher approved. Many tools have their own age requirements.
• Don't upload photos of people, and don't type anyone's personal details.
• Describe what you want in your own words. Don't name a living artist or a copyrighted character in a prompt. Whose style is whose is the next activity.
• Your work stays in class unless your teacher says otherwise.

Why it matters

Later in this unit you will choose tools for a real brief and defend the choice. Writing criteria first and changing one thing at a time is how you make that choice with evidence instead of a hunch.

✅ Self-Check Before You Share

Check off each item as you get there. These aren't grades. They're your own signal.