Monday, October 24, 2011

American Soldier Slide Show and Captions.

2)
A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
The one on Chapter 8, Ian Fisher - Coming Home. It's a photograph of a medal given to Ian by his squad leader. Its the most powerful image because its showing his great accomplishments from Iraq.

B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
 Chapter 6 , because it's showing what he does in Iraq , fighting for our country.

c. How do the images work together to tell a story?
They're in sequence of how everything was happening. 

3)
A. The verbs in the photographs where Ian is the main subject , are described in a present tense.

B. The captions enhance the photographs by describing what the subject is and what exactly is happening in the picture.

4)
A.
- Chapter 2- 6th photo, where they're shaving his head.
Caption : Bobby is having a 46 year old man shave his head right before morning training.
- Chapter 5 - 25th photo, where dad and son are togethere.
Caption : Bobby and his dad , Rob McDonalds, are at Wal-mart  having father son bonding.
-Chapter7 - 28th photo, where there is a guy with some sort of broom or something and is trying to push the dirt, while some guy is supervising his work.
Caption : Bobby is doing his afternoon routine while his supervisors Ronny, Chris and John are looking at his work, making sure he is doing it correctly.

5)
A. These videos enhance the photographs by giving us a more visual perspective about the situation.

B.Videos are better than photographs because they give you a more visual look about the time, and in photographs you have to make a prediction about what exactly is happening. Like in Chapter 1 you are being described the setting and everything but in the video the parents are talking about the things happening.

C.On the other hand, photographs are better that videos at times , lets say you have a photograph and a video and you are asked to make a prediction , im pretty sure you would choose the photographs since with a picture you can actually make a prediction, but with a video it shows what it actually is. For instance, in chapter 1 the 3rd photo shows Ian in his cap and gown from graduation, you can actually make an inference about what is happening , but in the video it doesn't show what exactly happened, and you can't predict since they just gave you the facts.

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