Title: “Will You Still Love Me When All of This is Gone”
Three descriptive tags: “post apocalyptic”, “generation x”, “gas mask”, “shadows”
For starts – this was a blast to make. It seems I have been reading quite a bit lately and of my reading this post apocalyptic theme flashes off the pages blinding and melting and imploding the walls around me. So I thought of the horrific, the eerie, the melancholy for this assignment. I used layering and some creative filters to achieve the mood and tone of dystopian justice.
Layers – I kind of feel that I over did this one. It was very difficult to work with text – what part of the image should or could you cover, how big should you make the text. Then – of course – should you use text at all? Will it change the meaning? What should be the focal point? Difficult choices to make and ones I did not take lightly. With all that said, there is too much to mention as far as what I could fix, change, and enhance.
Could we use the OPTIC (Overview-Parts-Title-Interrelationships-Conclusion) activity once again. Since there are so many parts to this photograph – gas mask, shadows, color, text, et cetera - I would then have my students look closely at each part of the photograph individually and explain how the picture would change if one removed one or more of the individual parts. We could then discuss how the parts of a photograph can skew an audience interpretation of meaning. Then of course I would have them bring in photographs of their own to discuss.
Photograph Assignment 08 FIle