Mask of HAPPINESS by caleb borwick
The text that I created uses a few visual techniques to help make my work look more visual appealing as well as to get a message across easier. A few examples of the visual techniques I used included;
My contrasting facial expression, the change of facial expression really emphasizes the point of the text. I choose to do this because it allows the audience to see the contrasting emotions, which reinforce the whole point of this text. I think having that really reinforced the effectiveness of the text as a whole.
The symbolism of the mask itself, the mask doesn’t just mean that my subject has to put on a mask to be happy but means so much more. In my interpretation it means that they can’t be themselves around other and have to put on a mask to be someone there are not. Another persons interpretation my be that this is someone who cant be happy and has to fake it in order to fit in and not have people worried about them all the time. I choose to do a mask like this because everyone who sees it can have his or her own interpretation. Without the mask it would just be someone looking sadly into a camera, without the mask there would be no piece so it is necessary for the effectiveness of the piece.
Orientation and point of view, in this my subject is looking directly into the camera. I choose to do it this way because it is the most direct way of getting the message across.
I was trying to create an effect of how some people might feel, and how it affects them. A lot of people aren’t comfortable in the skin they are in and can’t change that. This text was trying to show that, people hide themselves behind a mask of what they think people want them to be instead of who they are. This is image shows two conflicting emotions or the person who they are and the one they are supposed to be. I think my text got this message across very well, with the very contrasting expressions or personalities.