Our homework for Monday was to find an image, either from a magazine or online, and come up with at least 10 words/short phrases for that image. Each word/phrase should change the meaning of the image in a different way; they should convey 10 different emotions. The image was to be mounted onto a 15" x 20" posterboard, along with a clear sheet protector to insert the words in. After flipping through several magazines, I found an image of Mr. Peanut attempting to dunk a basketball and decided to use that for the homework assignment.
We started off class by presenting our posterboards. Everyone moved the tables and chairs to the back of the room and gathered in the front to view the posterboards. Professor Moss would take out the words from a poster and read each of them out loud to the class. Some of my classmates came up with really funny and clever words for their images. I immediately began to have doubts about my own assignment. I had struggled with trying to find words for my image, and I wasn't sure if I had did the assignment correctly. When Professor Moss got to my posterboard and started reading aloud some of my words, he exclaimed that they were "horrible!" I realized that I had focused on describing the image itself (with words like "athletic," "whimsical," and "funny"), rather than trying to express the meaning/emotion of the image. I guess I kind of misunderstood the assignment and interpreted the directions differently.
After about half of the students presented their posterboards, Professor Moss decided to shift gears and move onto something else. He brought in a dozen or so actual advertisements that featured thought-provoking words and images. I found most of them to be really creative and clever. We were then told to look at the advertisement that was posted on the board. It was a poster for Band-Aid that had an image of the Incredible Hulk's hand with a bandage wrapped around one of his fingers.
We spent the rest of the class period discussing this image, and how its interpretation ranged from "even superheroes get hurt" to "even God gets hurt." The God reference comes from the powerful glow and the hand position, which resembles that of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting.
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