The first thing I noticed about the revisions of the postcard was the narrative that was incorporated into the image through the text. Essentially, jessica is amplifying the original context of the image and directing the message into a more specific story to place with the image.
Before the image was depicting a chaotic scene of a abstracted house burning down with these menacing looking matches in the foreground. Now with the addition of Jessica's text we know who started the fire and also that it was an accident. We know this because the text shows us the distress that this Lucy character is in directly after the lighting of the match. Also I am guessing that Tommy is the one that lit it because he exclaims "what should I do?" while Lucy is worrying about what is going to happen. They also seemed to have fled the scene of the crime, worried about what might happen to them, leaving only the matches behind as evidence of there dark and misfortunate accident. I think based on the detail of my response that this postcard is communicating pretty well, at least to me. The fact that I can tell so much from a singular image makes this postcard very effective.
I am creating a story from this postcard. This story was not necessarily meant to clarify the postcard but was used to be symbolic that education with matches and anything that needs to be educated on should start at home and at an early age. The reason that others burn houses down has to do with regression that they have harbored their whole life, problems that usually began at childhood. This postcard is really trying to make two statements. The children's story is used to suggest that education on matches should start at an early age but the reality is that the children that would need this story to be educated on matches would probably not have a parental figure that was reading it to them.
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The first thing I noticed about the revisions of the postcard was the narrative that was incorporated into the image through the text. Essentially, jessica is amplifying the original context of the image and directing the message into a more specific story to place with the image.
Before the image was depicting a chaotic scene of a abstracted house burning down with these menacing looking matches in the foreground. Now with the addition of Jessica's text we know who started the fire and also that it was an accident. We know this because the text shows us the distress that this Lucy character is in directly after the lighting of the match. Also I am guessing that Tommy is the one that lit it because he exclaims "what should I do?" while Lucy is worrying about what is going to happen. They also seemed to have fled the scene of the crime, worried about what might happen to them, leaving only the matches behind as evidence of there dark and misfortunate accident. I think based on the detail of my response that this postcard is communicating pretty well, at least to me. The fact that I can tell so much from a singular image makes this postcard very effective.
I am creating a story from this postcard. This story was not necessarily meant to clarify the postcard but was used to be symbolic that education with matches and anything that needs to be educated on should start at home and at an early age. The reason that others burn houses down has to do with regression that they have harbored their whole life, problems that usually began at childhood. This postcard is really trying to make two statements. The children's story is used to suggest that education on matches should start at an early age but the reality is that the children that would need this story to be educated on matches would probably not have a parental figure that was reading it to them.
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