| The Mood Created by Two Photographs
When you look at these two photos, you will find something very different. There is also one thing they share together. The first photograph is "Village School" photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. The other one is "Children's Puppet Theatre" photographed by Alfred Eisenstadt. In both photographs, there are children facing toward you. But location and the mood of each photo are contrary to each other.
In "Village School", the place where the photograph was taken is in a room. It is a dark room filled with boys sitting in 4 rows, facing straight ahead. We can feel tense in their faces, and they all look gloomy. Not one of them is smiling in the picture. They are all just sitting straight in some kind of wooden chair. We also sense isolation because they are in a dark room where there is not much light. This isolated lightless room makes the photograph more depressed and blue.
The location where "Children's Puppet Theatre" was taken is outside. The children are outdoor, somewhere open and it is daytime. You can tell by watching the background. There are trees and also you can see the sunlight. It looks like there is enough light to brighten children, and it shows children's face with details and more vividly. It makes the photograph lively. And they show some actions like covering their ears or pointing at something or covering one's mouth.
They each create different mood in the photographs, but they have one thing in common. They focus on children, to be more specific they focus on their emotions. In "Village School", all young boys look like they do not feel joy at all. They are sitting still leaving space to one another. They look down like tensed, rigid, and stiff. In "Children's Puppet Theatre", you can see a lot of children with various emotions. They each express in different ways when watching the puppet show. Some looks like they are shocked or surprised, and some are screaming at the puppet show. This photograph contains more emotion than the former.
The moods that two photographs create are distinct from each other. One is dark, still, and stiff. You can tell by its place, the children's face, and position how children are seated. The other is bright, active, and energetic. You know by looking at the light shining in the background, emotion of children's face, and how they are gathered together. Like these they have differences but still they have one thing in common. Both have same main focus, and they are the children and their emotions. |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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You selected the location as its criterion of classification. It is same as mine. But I think you did more easily and simply than mine. And in third body paragraph, you compare these two images with children`s emotions in the images.
ReplyDeleteIt was very interesting that you can write an essay only focused about the place these pictures are taken. You did great job!
ReplyDeleteBut one thing I want you to revise is the third body paragraph. Because you stated you are going to deal with location and the mood of each photo in introduction, how about trying to relate the outside background and the mood of the picture. I believe this approach will be helpful to improve your writing.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your essay with us :)
At first, you explained well about details and differences of the two pictures. I could not find many grammatical mistakes or typo, which demonstrates you took care when you're writing. However i think your introduction is not that clear. If you wrote more clear and interesting hook sentence, and if you mentioned more details of similarities that two picture have, it would be better.
ReplyDeleteDifference and Similarity between Two Photographs
ReplyDeleteWhen you look at these two photos, you will find something very different. There is also one thing they share together. The first photograph is “Village School” photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. The other one is “Children’s Puppet Theatre” photographed by Alfred Eisenstadt. In both photographs, there are children facing toward you. But the mood of each photo is contrary to each other depending on the location and amount of light.
In “Village School”, the place where the photograph was taken is in a room. It is a dark room filled with boys sitting in 4 rows, facing straight ahead. We can feel tension in their faces, and they all look gloomy. Not one of them is smiling in the picture. They are all just sitting straight and stiff on some kind of wooden chair. We also sense isolation because they are in a dark room where there is not much light. This isolated lightless room makes the photograph more depressed and blue.
The location where “Children’s Puppet Theatre” was taken is outside. The children are outdoor, somewhere open and it is daytime. You can tell by watching the background. There are trees and also you can see the sunlight. It looks like there is enough light to brighten up the children, and it shows children’s face with details and more vividly. It makes the photograph lively. For example, they show some actions like covering their ears or pointing at something or covering one’s mouth.
They each create different mood in the photographs, but they have one thing in common. They focus on children, to be more specific they focus on their emotions. In “Village School”, all young boys look like they do not feel joy at all. They are sitting still leaving space to one another. They look down like tensed, rigid, and stiff. In “Children’s Puppet Theatre”, you can see a lot of children with various emotions. They each express in different ways when watching the puppet show. Some looks like they are shocked or surprised, and some are screaming at the puppet show. This photograph contains more emotion than the former.
The moods that two photographs create are distinct from each other. One is dark, still, and stiff. You can tell by its place, the children’s face, and position how children are seated. The other is bright, active, and energetic. You know by looking at the light shining in the background, emotion of children’s face, and how they are gathered together. Like these they have differences but still they have one thing in common. Both have same main focus, and they are the children and their emotions.