Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Work in progress
I think Ive made the finishing touches to my image analysis paper. At least for the purpose of a peer review. Im not one hundred percent sure that I wrote my paper to the standard or expectations placed toward everyone else because i missed the first day of discussion on the paper. But i spent the majority of my time focusing on describing the image in all possible aspects that were apparent to me. I covered not only each individual person in my image, but the background and foreground to the image. As well as the palcement of the logos. This correlates with my thesis which makes the claim that american advertising relies on subliminal messaging and false imaging to makes the tension by causing people to have to question the things that may have ben taken for granted before. As i said, not sure if this was the intent of the paper, but this was my take on it.
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The idea of "false" images is interesting. I take it as unrealistic portrayals of reality; but do you (or could you) mean, literally, fake images? (Even that could be one and the same, though, couldn't it?) I suppose my question would be: Is an image of posed, airbrushed people in a dramatized scene less fake than an image of a beer can blasting off into space?
ReplyDeleteNo i would say that it is not neccessarily less fake in the aspect of them being posed. The situation being displayed is fake. The act or scene is not actually happening because it's staged so it's just as fake as anything else. However, the idea of it being more real in relation to the beer can is more of a relation to humans. These are people so the image seems more real than a beer can, something that you can relate to. You are posing a fake situation but using something real in the process. I guess that you could argue that the beer can is real as well and common to find in our society, but maybe it's a sense of the can being an inanimate object that is less 'real' than a person. Not quite sure, but interesting.
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