Jack Johnson Visual Techniques

As well as being a professional Australian Rules (AFL) footballer, loving brother and father, Lance Franklin is a well-known indigenous athlete. He is most often represented as a physically strong, aggressive player, but also likable in the media. Throughout the following essay, three images will be deconstructed and analysed to show how sports’ photographers have portrayed Franklin in different ways. Moreover, these images give us an insight into who Franklin is both on and off-field as well as how these are constructed in a positive or negative manner.

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

The Last Moments of John Brown is a painting by Thomas Hovenden. It is an oil on canvas painting painted in 1884. The dimensions of the painting are 46 1/8 x 38 3/8 inches. This piece was painted to depict abolitionist martyr John Brown being taken to his execution in Charlestown, Virginia, on December 2, 1859. The piece is currently located at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California and its original location is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The theme I have selected for my book is “...Despite one’s best effort, humanity will not always return the favor. Life is not a balanced scale; life is a dance of give and take that can leave one person on top of the world and another buried six feet under.” This theme can be linked to my poster’s slogan: “It is possible to be chained by the stories we have yet to tell,” because the chains that bound the Lacks family were the cause of the unjustness they were subjected to. The image I selected represents my slogan and the characters in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because they felt locked up, left to rot as they wondered what had happened to their mother. The chains are the lies, the secrets, and the manipulations that the Lacks family

“As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.”

The distinctively visual is a prominent characteristic in which the composer shapes a unique visual perspective for the responder to interpret. Using a variety of techniques and languages, the composer is distinctively able to create vibrant and lively visualisations within their work. The poetry of Douglas Stewart, in particular ‘Lady feeding the cats’ and ‘Nesting time’ and the image of ‘’Firefighters at twin towers attack’’ photographed by Todd Maisel are particularly effective. Douglas’ poems uniquely portray ordinary people and outsiders at touching and meaningful moments, experiences and connection with nature that creates an image to the reader the relationship of man and nature and how nature can challenge

In Legend by Marie Lu the author develops the theme that everyday is a fresh start to reveal Day’s perspective of life and his way of living it. At this point in the story June and Day have escaped the Republic and are going into hiding. A storm hits them and they take shelter in an abandoned train car when June asks Day what made him chose Day as his street name. Day says “Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take all one day at a time… you try to walk in the light.” (Lu 304) This scene reveals the theme of taking life one day at a time because it shows how Day approaches life in his dystopian world. This emphasizes the mentality that Day has and how he is living life the best he can.

In this scene, when Jimmy Lee Jackson got shot by the White officer, the director also make the use of slow motion technique, but this time, the slow motion technique make the scene more compelling, while in the process of slow motion, the camera zoom into the confound expression of Cager Lee and Jimmy Lee Jackson mom, at the end it zoom into Jimmie Lee Jackson expression. This scene irritate me because even though they went in a restaurant that owned by black folk, but when they got beat down, no one there to help

Memories can be as short-lived as the moments that created them. The recollection of events and the deterioration of memories over time is a constant process that cannot be stopped. This inevitable passing of memory is fused to the inevitable passing of human life. Emily Davis’s still life photograph of wineglasses is reflective and fragmented, allowing the image to act as a metaphor for this fleeting aspect of memory through its own memory-like qualities. The photograph is also symbolic of the transience of human life through the use of the traditional symbol of the wineglass, ultimately serving as memento mori.

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

'Shawshank Redemption' directed by Frank Darabont is a compelling film about the life of one of its prisoners, Andy. many film techniques were used through out the film as a clever way of conveying main themes. This essay is going to examine how Darabont used camera angles and colour effectively in this film to portray the idea of power.

This line of imagery helps create the theme because it shows that you shouldn’t change, you should be glad you are who you are, as you are.

Simile-“Sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water” (4). This quote makes me think of the main character losing control. In this quote, the water is used in a simile to represent how she feels like she's just letting her opportunities slip through her fingers and she feels like there isn't anything she can do to stop it from happening because much like water you have no way of keeping it in your hands. Diction-“At my feet, the city doused its lights in sleep, its buildings blackened, as if for funeral” (11).

As I make my way along the sidewalk I come to the same old curve I always take a turn to without any hesitations kind of like my future I know what I want to do when I get out of school. Which I believe my time is over dued since I should of been out a while ago. But I know where my path will go when I graduate without a doubt.

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.