Wilson,+C+Week+12

====For my Prezi, I really wanted to capture why it is so important to have family relationships. I wanted to make sure that people were able to connect with my idea and that it made sense where I was going with it.====

I just finished up editing the paths and the pictures and putting in the captions; I'm pleased with how it all turned out and how it has all come together.
====The images that I ended up using are all personal photographs taken over many years at different points when my family was together. For some of the images, the story is easily understood— for the others it is more whatever the viewer wants to take from it. I didn't want to tell people what they were suppose to think of my story and of my images, I just wanted to tell it and then allow thoughts and comments to come based on people's own relationships with their family. For me, it is so important for all lines of communication to be open and so important that people don't live never knowing who belongs in their life. Sometimes your family is made up of people who aren't directly related to you, but that is okay too.==== ====I'm really hung up on Janet Malcolm's article that we read; I love her idea of looking at comparing professional work to snapshots. All of my images are snapshots and I think she really said it well, "A surprising and disturbing impression emergesfrom this melange of artistic and non-artistic photographs. One would expect the artless pictures to suffer when compared to the conscious works of art that surround them, but, oddly enough, they do not" (Malcolm). It just gives me more of a sense that my photographs can hold as much meaning in my story as a professionals photograph can in a magazine- or so I like to think.==== ====I think that I really tried to focus on something personal and make it broad enough that wide varieties of people could relate. I just wanted to people to understand that the bonds of family can't be lost or some of the most important moments and lessons in life cannot be taught.==== ====In the Susan Sontag article that we read, she talks about the amount of time spent looking at photographs is never something that you are told. Her quote states, "The sequence in which the photographs are to be looked at is proposed by the order of pages, but nothing holds readers to the recommended order or indicates the amount of time to be spent on each photograph" (Sontag). However, I think that this is part of the beauty of working with the Prezi. I get to decide how long each image should be displayed and how long I choose to focus on certain points. The photographs themselves may have been looked over, but here I got to create a story and decide when and where the focus should be.==== ====I know that I can't control what the viewer thinks but I hope that they can relate my story back to themselves. I hope that the importance of family relationships is evident and that people see what I wanted to tell in my Prezi.====