Process Paper On Mental Health

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This photo essay has one main purpose. This essay is meant to get people to care about a topic that has a history of being shoved under the rugged and ignored, mental health. Throughout this essay I attempt to cause some sort of emotional response to what may be some impactful statistics and photos. The audience in a smaller scale was the class but, if taken to a bigger scale it is meant to sway those who don’t have a grasp of the impact of mental illness, especially on the younger population. This essay is particularly aimed to those people who a sense of apathy when it comes to dealing or believing in the idea of mental illnesses. The choices made come together in order to emphasize the emotional response …show more content…

My design theme was structured around creating impact and emotion. So, the first thing that I needed to decide upon was what photos I was going to use in this essay. I decided upon using my collection of photos that I have taken over the past year. For the last year I have been photographing my friends, my environment, or other things with a 35mm film camera in black and white film. Throughout the last year I have taken, developed and enlarged myself some two hundred photos so I felt confident I could find appropriate images for this essay. The reason I felt confident is that through my artwork I have attempted to capture my personal struggle with mental illness and strive to have my artwork to be able to have a person feel what I have felt through my life. In reality I couldn't think of a better …show more content…

The photo chosen for the first slide seems like an odd choice but, I had a very clear intention when using it. My idea was to evoke an idea of antiquity with this old seemingly run down barn. The barn itself being something very rural and simple. This ideas where to be in a person’s head as the read the opening text to the presentation. The use of quotations was very delibert. It is meant to seem as though this is something someone is saying. This phrase of “who cares about mental health anyways” tied with the idea of age and simplicity of the picture is to portray this quote to be said by someone who has little understanding of the issue and in is set in their ways. This is then countered by the last slide. The pure black slide with the phrase in quotations is a response to the opening slide. The idea was to present this essay in manner that captures a dialogue between an apathetic person and a person who is trying to prove a point. The lack of photo on this last slide is to bring all focus to the text closing text. The text that seems to asks the viewer in a sarcastic tone, due to wording, about who would care about the previous statements. This was structured in order to pull on people’s heartstrings. After being saddened by images and stats the idea of someone not caring was meant to get others to care about

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