A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
The second photo in the coming section is the most powerful image because it shows how much he was happy to be home. Most importantly it showed how happy his family was when he came home. It shows that the life in the army was hard for him and coming back home was the greatest thing ever.
B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
Life in Iraq was the most powerful. Being in Iraq and seeing how scary it could be and the missions you would have to go on makes you look at it all a completely different way. You can see all they had to go through and the tactics they had to take when being in Iraq.
c. How do the images work together to tell a story?
All the images are taking in a specific way at specific time lining each one up after another. You can look at one photo and then look at the next one and be able to tell what is going on in that time frame just by the sequence they are in.
3. Click on the "i" button on the upper right side of the photos to see the captions.
A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?
They are written in present and past tense verbs
B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
They give more detail on what is actually going on in the photo. Makes everything more interesting and you can understand the photos better.
4. Turn off the caption feature.
A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.
1. In the section coming home look at the picture where the father is on the phone and the mother is wearing purple.
Caption: Ian parents are really excited for their sons return home. Waiting for him to show the mother is becoming impatient from all the excitement while the father is on the phone telling other family that he is almost near and to prepare something extraordinary for him.
2. In the coming home section look at the photo where ian is wearing a hat and a tap out shirt and his mother is playing pool
Caption : While the mother is playing pool Ian distracts her to make her lose but also talks about the life in the army and the procedure they had to do when being there. The mother works hard to concentrate on the winning shot though.
3. In the section coming home look at the photo where ian is wearing a black shirt and the mother is wearing a pink shirt
Caption: The mother wipes the kisses off his cheek that she has given him. He blushes but wants to be a man expressing the fact that men don't get kisses from mothers anymore. Although she sees this she is just proud to have the fact that her son is finally home.
A. How do these other features enhance the photographs?
Having Ian express him self everything that went on during the war made you get a better understanding than the captions and pictures because he was telling it himself
B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.
Videos explain more and you get a better visualization then photographs. In photographs many stories can be told and you can guess on what is actually going on the picture but you may not be correct all the time. When videos gives you the story automatically and you can actually see everything that is truly happening without having someone explaining. It plays the role of telling a story.
C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.
Photos show more. Videos can explain things better but photographs can show and speak out to you. If a powerful action is being caught in a photo you are able to take that in and really focus. When videos have so much going on and its hard to pause just one moment for it to make an impact. A photograph can capture so many different meanings and actions which can also make it better than a video. It captures one moment.
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