I will start off this response stating that I loved what Laura Fields did with the layouts and cutting out of old President Bush. It reminded me a lot of what I tried to accomplish in my How-To project; having an symbol stand in for an actual image. In both cases I feel that the symbol holds more of a story and impact than a straight photograph ever could. By taking away some of what we normally see, you give the possibility to more and a greater meaning than a photograph initially held.
In general this is the same idea that we are using in our current project. We initially thought of two different point of views, and for each we created a list of words. And for those words we ended up establishing a set of symbols, icons, textures, colors, photographs, illustrations, and found text to describe each word. From all of those assets we were to start putting together small variations of posters and now the actual posters that express our point of views. Through this project the main thing that is being pushed is how each piece in a composition has the ability to say everything and nothing; the meaning depends on the way an object is used and what it is used with.
I thought it was very interesting to think that a company can attain/request to always have the same part of a newspaper to advertise. I had never thought that the image that was used in an advertisement was chosen on purpose to mimic a shape that was used in a photograph on the other column of the newspaper. Then I though back to the experience that I've had with school newspapers (junior high, high school and college) and don't remember companies being able to choose where their advertisements go; let alone knowing what the photograph was on the column next to it, so that it corresponded to something in their advertisement. Overall, I find that very clever, and will have to look at advertisements more often, to see if there is some form of an article's photograph that corresponds to advertisements nearby.
No comments:
Post a Comment