Wednesday, November 2, 2016

American Soldier

I think that one of the most powerful images is the one of Ian praying at his tent. That is one of the most powerful images because you can tell he is during all of his trust and pain into god, and that he has hope that things will get better.

The images all work together to tell a story because you see all of the emotions that he was going through and experiencing. You can see all of the things that he is going through and you can almost feel the emotions he is feeling. 

The captions enhance the story because it tells you what the pictures can't. It kind of tells the background story behind the photos. 

Ian Fisher is a troubled but patriotic person. He would always try to do the right thing but then something would take him over and drag him back down again. In high school he saw a dream and decided to follow it. He enlisted in the army at 18, and sought out the american dream... to serve your country. He went into the army and trained vigorously. Ian prayed that he would make it through, but with many emotional issues he started using drugs and misbehaving. He then awoke and realized the dark hole that he was in and decided to do something about it. He got his life back together, and started to work at making things right. 

The verbs are in present tense.

Captions:
There are typically 2 sentences per caption. 
The first sentence describes what physical action is going on in the photo.
The second sentence gives and future or past information related to the photo. 
The third sentence provides a quote. 
Some captions do include quotes. 
There are very few with 4 sentences. 

I think that it is possible to tell a story with just captions because it is telling you what all is going on, and it is showing you what the person in the photo is feeling. 

I think that a story written with just words and a story written with captions and pictures give off two different feelings. When it is just words then you get to imagine more and make things up, rather when it is just pictures and captions it is telling you strait up what happened. 

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