Friday, April 30, 2010
Six Picture Memoir
After our class workshop, and the more and more time I put into the six picture memoir I've decided that it may be one the most challenging English projects I've had to work on. The fact that I need to convey a series of events so that my audience can get a sense of what I’m talking about is very difficult. I have to put my mind into the audiences, personally I already know what the pictures mean to me and what the story is that I'm trying to put across but after the workshop I got the sense of the audience and decided it is very difficult to convey your exact message. As I continue to work on this project the pictures seem to become broader so that I can get the audience to understand what I'm trying to say, but when I'm trying to be more exact it's difficult to pick a picture to describe only that idea. Might you guys have some ideas so that even though the picture might be able to depict numerous ideas, a way to narrow the idea of one picture?
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I am stuck just like you, I thought that the 6 word one would be hard but it is much easier to convey a direct message in words. For mine it can be interpreted a variety of different ways but it is cohesive. The pictures on the other hand I have no idea what to do to make my audience see what I am trying to say! What I see in the pictures is easy to understand because I know the topic of my memoir. I don't know how authors step back and see it how their audience will.
ReplyDeleteI agree one-hundred percent. The six image memoir is by far the hardest of the three. Like both of you have said it is very hard to pick images that tell the story that you already know they represent. What I had to end up doing was shortening my story from one week of spring break to one specific event that happened. I don't know what story your trying to tell but perhaps shortening the number of events that occur will make it easier to match images to the story.
ReplyDeleteI join the rest of your sentiments about the difficulty of the 6 images. Of the three, arranging the 6 images in such a was to depict a cohesive story with a distinct yet comprehending flow took me the most time. What I did to try and achieve this was use common symbols throughout the 6 images that the audience could readily recognize and apply to the next image given the context of the former image to guide a developing meaning.
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