Visual Framing

It can be inferred that the original image has two very central things going on in the image. However, when one first looks at this image, people seem to notice the house first and then move their eye to the man walking and the city in the background. This is normal, because the house is the biggest and most focal point of the image, it is detailed more than the rest, and it is a flying house. That is why I chose move a little to the right and frame the man and the city, because there is a lot, if not possibly more going on in that small part of the image compared to the huge levitating house.  The original image is an XWS, and extreme wide shot. We know this because it shows the character inside the location. The framed image is a wide shot (WS) because it shows him from head to toe, and not completely showing the full location. In the framed image, the man seems to be shot from a low angle that in turn, makes him look more powerful. Also, in the framed image, there is a wonderful use of lines. The lines show movement. The three darkest and most visible lines frame the man and show that he is walking the opposite way and towards the city. All of the other lines follow and meet the three lines to show the same direction. In the original image, you can tell that the man is walking toward the city and away from the house as well, because of the lines. There is also a lot of objectivity and subjectivity in the image. It is objective because we can see that a man is leaving away from the house towards a city, but we don’t know why he is leaving or moving towards the city. That is what makes it subjective as well. We can also see a lot of symbolism in the image as well. The man dressed in all black can be a symbol for something bad happening and that would be the reason he is leaving. The black and unidentifiable city could mean that the man doesn’t know where he is truly going. There is a lot going on in this image, both the original and framed one, it is just al up to interpretation.