Weekly Response #6:

DUE NEXT WEEK (April 6th): In 2-3 pages, write about how a chosen image or set of images have a psychological undertone or that you believe informs or reflects a certain psychological perspective. Your image/s can be something from an advertisement, where psychology is being utilized in an effort to sell a product; image/s wherein you believe a certain psychology is being reflected within the art itself (i.e. depression, anxiety, fear, anger, etc.); or image/s that are being used to perhaps speak to an audience in an attempt to elicit a certain psychological response (other than for advertisement purposes - perhaps for the sake of art activism or to illuminate a particular issue, etc.). 

Remember, the psychological issue could be an individual one or a social one . . . at the deeply personal and individual level, or on a larger national, political, ethnic, and/or community level. What is the image suggesting about either the artist, the community it is attempting to represent, or the audience to whom it speaks? 

Also, keep in mind that the image may contain a psychological undertone or be psychologicall suggestive and/or informs or reflects a psychological concern without intending to, as well. If you believe this to be the case, you can write about that, as well. 

This assignment is meant to be pretty wide-open to your individual interpretation, so feel free to work with this any way you see fit. Try to use our class readings, however, as a guide (not necessarily responding to them, per se, but as a lens through which to look at how some others have approached the art of film with a psychological lens). 

You can use any art or communications medium you want . . . just be sure to back up whatever claims, arguments, thoughts, or points you make with some "evidence" from your chosen image/s. In other words, if you are going to claim that your image has an aura of depression about it or speaks loudly to the psychology of teenagers who are in that psychological stage of desperately seeking their independence, then explain HOW that image is doing that (whether pointing to colors, lines, shadows, gestures, the way a photo is shot, the placement of bodies, the use of clothing or not, the use of texture, black and white imagery versus color, use of text or not, etc., etc.). 

If you have any questions, please email me.