Audio Commentary - Movie Scene

Audio Commentary - Fallout

Reimagining Visual Framing

            In the first image, there is a house, floating in the air, dominating the LEFT THIRD of the image. Because the house is dominating the left third and there’s not much else to balance out the image on the other half of it, our eyes are immediately drawn to look right at the house before examining the rest of the image. I would call this image AMBIGUOUS SPACE because of the awkwardness of the house being in the air and us, as the viewer, not knowing from where exactly we are looking. By adding buildings in the bottom right, where the man appears to be heading, it gives the image a sense of DEPTH, assuming that the buildings in the background are the same size as the one in the foreground, just at very different distances. Both the images give a dark and somber feel, with the grays and browns highlighting everything, the two show great AFFINITY in color and emotional feel, but CONTRAST greatly in context. Both images require an ACTIVE mind to determine its meaning and feel because through imagery alone it is difficult to know what the artist was thinking.

            For the edited image, I decided to zoom in on the man in the bottom right. The lines below the man give us the feeling that the man is receding in to the background of the image. His coat waving in the wind is also telling us that the man is moving toward the background. The edited image, to me, feels a little more relaxed, while the original feels dark and depressing. I chose to focus on the man because I really liked that particular little section of the image. The man seems on his own, on a mission apparently, and from the looks of the color, dark clouds and far off background, his mission will not be easy and there seems to be little hope.