For this post, you're going to apply some of the ideas we've discussed with regard to text and image. Your goal is to create a visual argument that is accompanied by a limited amount of text (think Sweet Flypaper of Life--significantly more images than text). Hopefully, this exercise will get you to think and compose visually in a way that you haven't before.1.) Decide on a political, economic, personal, cultural, or educational concern that you'd like to make a statement about. The more specific your concern, the more focused your argument will be. For example, guns are bad is a broad concern. Congress should pass legislation to require a thirty day waiting period in all states is more specific. But your statement certainly doesn't have to be that weighty.
2.) Collect and post a series of images on your blog that address your concern and make a clear statement about it.
3.) Consider the following as you assemble your visual argument:
- How many images to use, what order to put them in, how large/small each one should be.
- How each image relates to the one before and after it and to the argument as a whole.
- Where to put text--on top of an image (a la Perez Hilton), below/above each image, only with select images, only at the beginning?
- How the text you select expands, narrows, contradicts, or confuses the content of the picture.
- The color and font of the text used in your argument.
Image from http://www.martinelkort.com/photographs/abstracts/Number4.jpg
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