Looking at the image above, what pops into your mind? Possibly a little girl just having fun, minding her own business. The story behind this image is about Rylee Mehung, seven years old at the time, making the best out of her boredom while she’s waiting for Senator Elizabeth Warren to rally with her supporters at Manchester Community College in NH. But what if Rylee really just wanted the attention on her, taking the camera’s attention away from Warren and snapshotting her creative boredom strategies?
This assignment is about capturing “The Big Idea”, or finding an image off of the “The Big Picture” by The Boston Globe and adding typographical text to change the message or meaning the picture actually delivers. This image is from the “Globe staff photos of the month, February 2020“, with some of the best photographs by Globe photographers for the month of February in 2020. The first image on this page is of Rylee making the best out of her boredom. When I saw this, I pictured a seven year old girl just minding her own business while Warren was rallying with supporters; however, the whole point of “The Big Idea” is the change the message of the picture. Below, you will find the way I interpreted the picture after finding the message:
This typographical text along with the image now frames Rylee as a little girl trying to come up with creative ways to turn the photographers attention away from Warren and onto her, because who wouldn’t want the star of the show to be a little girl? She almost looks like a princess, dressed in her green tutu and blue headband, or “crown”, stepping across a bridge onto her next journey. Doing this assignment was interesting because after you know the meaning of a message behind a picture, it’s almost difficult to interpret it any other way. However, with some creative thinking and original ideas, I thought back to when I was a seven year old and how when at family gatherings, I would always try to be in the pictures because I thought it was so much fun (and of course, the attention was turned onto me). This is how I created this MEME and changed the message of the picture.
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