Cantrell,+D+Wk+09

3VSP Project Topic Description: I'm thinking about doing a picture story of the journey/process of a girl growing up and waiting for the dream relationship she has been led to believe waits for her. The first picture I have is a little girl reading and dreaming under a tent; this represents childhood and the beginnings of dreaming of adult life. The next series of pictures deal with adolescence and teenage years: a dark mansion in the mists, a picture of a clock locket held by someone with a lace dress, a woman in a wedding dress sitting looking out a window forlornly. Then there's the transition to college-age years with a snowglobe that says "Even miracles take a little time"-Cinderella, and a 1800's dressed woman sitting by and facing a river (her face hidden)..In this waiting period I'm thinking of putting in a picture that shows the girl finds someone but it's not right (but maybe not) Finally, there's a picture of a sunny, flowery path, and a picture of a prince embracing a princess. The moral is the journey was long, but it was worth the wait.

I will have to see how the theorists we have to read relate and can be incorporated.

5/6/12 Project Description: So I've once again, completely re-vamped my VSP idea, and thus a new description is required. I've come a long way since the beginning of my project. I went from doing something very vague, idealistic, and dreamy, to the conflicting messages most women face due to the media, movie, etc (being strong vs. being saved and in love) to something more personal, yet still applicable to young women, though my audience has perhaps narrowed. I chose to have my new VSP be about my desire to be like the heroines in my novels. I chose to look at 4 specific heroines: (in order of their appearance) Elizabeth Bennett (Pride & Prejudice), Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre), Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey), and Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables). My goal was to see what they could teach about the path to love: they teach that love is a process. Heroines go through loneliness, not getting what they want, dealing with unsuitable partners, and worrying about the future. In fact, hey go through a lot of the same things I go through. Realizing this, I had to discover what were some of the things they did to cope with lonliness, dealing with unsuitable partners, etc. I then go through what they do: making new acquaintances, serving others, reflecting on their mistakes, and discussing the future with loved ones. By adding one of my favorite stoically inspirational quotes from Jane Eyre, I thought it summed up their/my dilemma and offered a solution: instead of dwelling in all the gloom and regret, "we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind." Each of the four character has their own "story" that they have to work through.

PHOTOGRAPHY AUDIENCE PROFILE SHEET Viewer’s Name: Viewer’s Job Title: and looking for love. || . || Art and Literature that has a plot around life and waiting for Mr. Right. ||  || getting what you want are integral to dating and relationships. ||  ||
 * Kind of Viewer: ||  Primary || Secondary ||
 * Education: || Ages 13-60+ ||  ||
 * Professional Experience: || any and all jobs, or none ||  ||
 * Job Responsibilities: || ? ||  ||
 * Personal Characteristics: || young girls, young women, older women who like to read classics, and/or like to watch period dramas; they identify themselves with heroines in novels/movies, introverted or reflective, or extroverted
 * Personal Preferences: || Disney princess movies, period drama movies, drama's with love as the center,
 * Cultural Characteristics: || romantic love at center of cultural understanding of marriage, pleasure-seeking and
 * Attitude Toward the Photographer: || None ||  ||
 * Attitude Toward the Subject: || Expectant ||  ||
 * Expectations about the Subject: || Expectant, want to be consoled or uplifted ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expectations about the Photograph: || ? || . ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reasons for Viewing the Photograph: || Want to be consoled or uplifted to hope ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Way of Viewing the Photograph: || ? ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viewing Skill: || just be able to follow a stream of thought in pictures ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viewer’s Physical Environment: || home setting, anywhere ||  ||


 * Initial Ideas before this last revision:**
 * The Idea:** Thought about my Tumblr images that I've collected and remembered I had a small collection of photos that I found from other people's sites. I had posted them to my site and they seemed to arrange themselves to tell a story. The story was that of waiting for the right love relationship, and all the waiting and imagination that is involved in making it a bigger deal than maybe it should be. It's very much about the journey or path to love for girls.


 * Where:** Remembered and found the images on tumblr.com but they are from many different sources.
 * The Critics1**: I like what Sontag said about a photograph (and goes for a collection of photos too): "A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happend. The picture may distort ; but there is always a presupposition that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture" (5).


 * Reflection:** This is important to my story and what I'm trying to convey. While most of the pictures are fantasy-based (have an element of romanticism more of imagination than reality), together they express both an external and an internal, or symbolic journey of a girl growing up and waiting for love. The photographs together are like a documentation (proof) that this journey or process happened.


 * The critics 2:** Sontag had another point that really struck: "Although there is a sense that the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are" (6). These photographs grouped together (and individually) definitely constitute an interpretation of reality/the world. Not every girl will view the "journey to love" like this, but it's my version, and probably a few others'.
 * Search:** Found these images at Tumblr.com, which I have an account with. People from all around the world post pictures they find or take themselves and people "like" and "Reblog" them and post them to their own page. On your page you can arrange them in a certain way, much like a collage. I had liked and posted all of these pictures to my blog, except for one (the well lit, flowery path) which I remembered seeing on someone else's blog. So I took all of these pictures and saved them individually and posted them into my Prezi.


 * Prezi:** Going into this I basically knew the order in which I would put these pictures (because I had already had an idea in my head of the "right" order.) I posted them and arranged them in a circle, with them going top left and then counter clock-wise to top right. I drew the path according to the order I felt was accurate to my experience.


 * What's Next**: I want to continue looking at Sontag and the other critics we'll be reading to see if there are any more direct points I want to be making rhetorically. I'm not exactly sure about all of the pictures, I might replace a few to make the order/timeline more probable or true to experience. I don't know if I want to convey if the girl finds a guy but it's not the right one/how exactly to show that without me having to explain.


 * My Point:** I guess I'm still trying to figure out what my point is or what I'm proving. I like my story idea of the [emotional] journey (symbolic/internal) of a certain girl within American culture that reads about fairytales and heroic knights resecueing princesses and wonders when her time will come. The dark waiting period and the imagination that adds to this waiting seems to be the focus of the story. The happy ending, while the conclusion, isn't so much the point as the journey. This relates to Sontag saying that photography 'proves' that something exists or did happen; for this, it's the dark waiting period that I want to prove exists and is just as essential/important to getting the right guy.