Thursday, June 17, 2010

Ex 5 - BLOG / Visual vs Symbolic Language


stress
unrest
confusion
blank
hurt
confused
ready and willing to work
large field of view
never ending line
feeling of failure
money
business casual
downtown
hope
cattle

This picture of an unemployment line leaves you feeling the subjects confusion and unrest. The large field of view used emphasizes the length of the line and the immense amount of people who are ready and willing to work yet have little opportunity. The woman in the front of the picture is obviously stressed and the hurt continues down the line. There is one man (in a yellow shirt) who appears to be smiling which may offer some hope to this “cattle line”. The human eye is thought to view things from left to right so the angle of the people really draws us from the woman in front to the rest of the never ending line. The passive part of the picture (the upper background) is a downtown -type area which underscores the need of money very subtly

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