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This image feels very edgy - its black and white, high contrast, seen in an extreme perspective. The type of bench itself also help the edgy factor. The metal grates of the bench feel very industrial, and automated.
The juxtaposition of the text over the image in the last frame raises a very good question. "Who sat here before you?"
To me, that statement implies that there are many different uses and connotations for park benches. For example, a park bench could be a nice place to have lunch or where a dirty bum was just sleeping.
The park bench you chose and the way it was depicted makes me feel like a pedophile just swiped an innocent little girl from this bench.
This could be a depiction for an amber alert or missing child - It's very bleak, gray, solemn and lonely.
The addition of the child gives a specific direction of negativity for this bench. It is a black and white photo of a child crying which is an automatic negative feeling. It is also a close crop of the childs face. The child is also grabbing his face as if he is in pain, and truly upset. This is not a "fake" cry that children sometimes do.
At first glance before reading your comment, I did not know why the child was crying. I had many questions wondering through my mind. Did the child fall down by the bench? Did his parent that was once on the bench watching him get up for a second and he felt lost? No matter what the case, it was still a negative feeling.
The juxtaposition of the bench with the child lets the viewer know that the bench is somehow a contributer to the child's emotion. The bench in someway had an effect on why the child is crying and upset. The forms of message used in this are presentational: because the childs face and hands are involved in giving off an emotion. It is clear the child is crying and upset.
Representational: because the piece uses photography as its original form to give the message.
Mechanical: Because we are blogging back and forth and using the internet to give each other feedback and input on the message we are trying to send out.
As soon as I saw the photo of the bench you sent me, I immediately felt that it had a negative connotation. It was very toghtly cropped, with little information, black and white, high contrast - all things I associate with negativity.
By adding the child (who is clearly upset), I've given the card a push in a clear, well-defined direction.
I chose the close crop to stay consistent with your cropping style, and to reduce the amount of background information, so the child could be interpreted with only the bench (and not any background noise).
You're right when you think that the child may be crying for any other reason than being kidnapped (i.e. fell down, felt lost). I'm sure plenty of things could happen to a kid on a bench - I chose to go to the extreme because it has the most impact emotionally, which matches the amount of impact both images had visually.
I'm not sure that the juxtaposition of the child and bench in this way signifies that the bench is a contributor to the child's emotions. I feel as if the bench plays less of a role in the emotion and more of a role in the setting of a hypothetical situation.
Your final card hit the nail on the head. At first, I thought that the image of the child was on a newspaper, but then I realized that it was on the back of a milk carton...Genius!
I also like that the hands of the person holding the milk carton has been pushed back, so they don't become a focal point.
The background image you chose is crucial, and in this case, it's perfect.
We have the juxtapositions of a nice, friendly, bright, sunny, fun-looking, child-filled playground in the background, with a terrible and emotional image of a missing child. The implication that something bad (missing child in the foreground), could have been the result of a place that is meant to be a good thing (a playground) is ironic. It's an interesting commentary on today's society and what a crazy world we live in.
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