Convergences (2-24)

When I first picked up the book to begin reading I thought it was going to put me to sleep, surprisingly it was really interesting to me. The beginning, about message, method, and medium had me really thinking about how much time is put into a simple photograph, for example, Weegee, Car Crash Upper Fifth Ave., July 13, 1941, on page 7. When I saw this i thought to myself how could Weegee stand there and go for the perfect shot instead of helping them get out of the car. Then i remembered a picture I saw last spring, on the cover of some magazine. It had a person (I cant recall the age), laying down in the dirt with a buzzard watching them, ready to eat them. And I again was confused on how the photographer could take a picture and not help. It shows how important message, method, and medium are in any type of work, photography for example, that they would focus on that more than saving a life. I also was interested about audience, purpose, and context. I didn't actually know how much went into making commercials, movies, essay, billboards, etc. until i read this. My dad works for Pepsi Cola and he has posters, and ads in his truck for when he puts up displays and I never thought of how much time is put into each poster. Sometimes ill see a commercial on television and think nothing of it, but now after doing the reading I am trying to pick apart the ads and try to guess the audience, purpose, and context. The first section was really interest and I'm excited to keep reading the book.