Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter 2 begins with discussion on how a scene within a photo can be staged to tell a narrative. Kind of what I did with project 3, I staged scenes to express a narrative. Combining natural light with artificial light at particular times of the day can give greater strength to the general rhythm or tone of the photo. The use of youthful actors within a fairy tail narrative give an innocent interpretation of the photo as well as grasp the youthful energy given off by the actor. This energy can add to a photo and help express the narrative. In one such way within the reading using the youthful presence of the female actors legs, Deborah Messa-Pelly kind of blurs the the essence of innocence with a "phallic tail" expressed to be a lions curling around the legs. This, though staged, impression implies intimacy between the characters framed within the photo. It is interesting to see but kind of disturbing when you think of the context.