Point of view
By manipulating, editing or altering an image, one subject or idea can be presented in different ways. This will depend on the point of view being presented and the purpose of the image.
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This house in Vietnam is the focus of the image on the left. It is the subject. The image does not include much surrounding detail. Without the surrounding detail it is hard to tell if this house is in a city or a country town. |
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Now look at the image to the right. You can easily tell the setting is a city. It is the same city in which the house in the previous image is set. Can you spot the house? The point of view has shifted so that the focus of the image is no longer the house but the city itself. |
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In the top image below, a youth appears to be aggressively pushing a smart looking business man in a city alley. The impression being conveyed is that the young man is assaulting the clean-cut business man.
Another image shows the same event with the same people, but this time the frame of the image has been expanded to show a steel beam falling from a building site above the two men. In this scene the young man is shown to be a hero saving the business man from injury.
Another example of how an image can be constructed to convey different points of view about the same subject is presented below. Here you can see three images of a bikie. He is presented in three different ways:
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Look carefully at the images above. Discuss what features help to convey different points of view.
Write your responses and those of others in your journal.
Create three images which present different ideas about the same subject. Share your images with others in your class.
