Friday, September 14, 2012

Comprehension clues in page 54,55 about my essay




  • ·         The only individual image that appears in this ad is picture of a kid who is suffocated from the smoke.
  • ·         The kid’s image is almost fill out the whole page which shows the main focus of the ad is on him. Also, with the light on his head, all of the attraction draws to kid’s head and the smoke around him.
  • ·         The relative size of the image between the kid and the font for the written text is huge. Even though, the written words in the ad are emotionally strong and powerful, the creators of the ad preferred to make the font very small, and let the image do the talking.
  • ·         The background is solid black which shows all of the focus is on the kid’s image. In addition, the black background makes a great contrast with kid’s bright head, and makes it even lighter.
  • ·          Around the kid is an empty black space which represents kid has left alone and helpless.
  • ·         The kid has a simple glumly brown shirt to show pain and sadness he is suffering. There are no colorful or graphical shirts which mostly are used for kids. Also, the shirt has a harmony with kid’s hair color. The kid’s face is abnormally red which shows he has a hard time breathing or he cried a lot because if the pain that he is suffering.
  • ·         The only person in the ad is the kid; however, the ad mentions two groups of people. First group, smoker who choose to smoke and the other group is non smokers who are the victims of sharing space with smokers.
  • ·         The kid’s face expression is suffocated, fear and agony. When kids are under pain, they start to cry because cry is the only thing they can do to show their pain. The smoke in the ad makes a plastic bag’s illusion around kid’s head which could be deadly.


1 comment:

  1. This is a very troubling picture because there is a crying kid with smoke just flowing around his head and into his mouth and nose. At least the way I see it they make the smoke look like a plastic bag and with the words “Smoking isn’t just suicide, Its murder” they are comparing smoking around children to the same as putting a plastic bag over your kids head and suffocating them. This is a very powerful image I’m sure anyone who saw it would defiantly be affected by it, whether they would agree with it or not is another story but I think most people would agree smoking can kill.

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