Exercise: Symbols
The purpose of this exercise is to list one symbol for for the following subjects and a few short notes saying how they could be used in a photograph:
growth, excess, crime, silence, and poverty
Growth: An image of a small child with a child's watering can watering plants/vegetables just sprouted from the soil. Growth here is signified by the emerging plants tended by the child who them self will under go growth both in height and knowledge if also well tended by the parents.
Excess: An image of an overweight person on the scales peeking behind a hand at the weight value displayed by the scales. I think everyone to some degree would relate to this image
Crime: An image of a man trying to pull a handbag from a woman, and unbeknown to the thief a policeman running towards them
Silence: An image of a teenager clearly in a school library with 2 studious colleagues on either side, the teenager in the middle has tape across there mouth forming an X looking at the camera
Poverty: I think an image of contrasts; a poor family in a tin house and in close proximity in the background a metropolis type of city with tall office buildings indicating wealth
I think the key to an image indicating a symbol is simplicity so the message is easy and quick to grasp. This would be very important for an advert on TV; perhaps large poster advert could be an image with something simple to quickly grasp but also contains some further depth in the image / additional message.
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