Still Image Draft

This is my rough draft for the still image draft for my portfolio assignment. My image, and whole entire premise for my portfolio is on the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. My thought process came to me when I was trying to figure out what kind of still image I wanted to do. I am not the best at photoshop, but thought that I could make a non-traditional collage of pictures that are related to the different topics discussed in the story. I knew that I did not want the photos to just be placed around each other, but intertwined and made to look like the pictures are all connected, because all the these main elements of To Kill a Mockingbird make it a great novel.

I first took a picture that would make a good background setting for all the photos. I picked the sunset silhouette, because I felt that it represented the setting of the story, especially when it first starts off one hot Alabama summer morning. I then took a couple of other pictures that related to the story. The ghost represents Boo Radley, the courtroom where the trial took place, the sunset is the transition from innocence, the two older people a walking are the Jem and Scout walking down the way of life, the two hands represent two different people coming together, the three kids watching it all are Jem, Scout and Dill, just like they watched the trial go on, and of course the mockingbird. With the mockingbird, I could have made it a full silhouette, but thought it best to leave a mark in in, for killing a mockingbird is a sin since they are innocent, therefore I felt that some of Jem and Scout’s innocence was taken away in this book, but not completely.

Work Cited

Gurdonark. Mockingbird in Silhouette. Digital image. Openclipart. N.p., 09 Jan. 2013. Web. 18 Sept. 2016.

Robinson, Clyde. Courtroom. Digital image. Flickr. N.p., 28 Jan. 2010. Web. 18 Sept. 2016. 

Matres, Raul, Jr. It'll Be Okay. Digital image. Flickr. N.p., 21 Mar. 2009. Web. 18 Sept. 2016.