Blog Assignment 5

Original From Ben Goossens

 My reframed image

I chose to reframe one of Ben Goossens pictures.  This is a picture of a room where the walls are painted to look like a sky, and the floor is painted to look like and open grass prairie.  In the original picture, there is an owl sitting on a rocking chair.  I decided to reframe just the owl, limiting the viewers of what is in the background to emphasize the bird.  I took out the emphasis that was given to the entire room and just focused on the owl in the rocking chair.  By doing this I changed the space, rule of thirds, and shot type.

The first the that drastically changed by reframing this picture is space.  I decided to limit the amount of space that the artist wanted to reveal in the original.  In the original picture, the owl was a point of interest, but did not show a major importance to the owl.  By limiting the space the owl seems more dominant, and the viewer now focuses their full attention on it making it seem like the most important part of the picture.  Limiting the space also changed the whole way somebody perceives the image.  In the original, the audience realized that the sky and grass prairie were painted on the walls of the room.  Now from limiting the viewers space, the do not know that it is a painted room, but rather a owl standing on a rocking chair in an actual grass prairie.

Along with space, I also changed the rule of thirds of the original image bye Goossens.  In the original picture, the owl was put in the right rule of third making it more visually attractive to the audience.  Now, by reframing the image, the owl is now placed in the middle third of the image giving the owl and book more importance.

By reframing the image, I also changed the shot type.  In the original shot the artist made the shot a wide shot.  The wide shot reveals vaguely the bird on the chair, but also reveals more of the background by establishing where the image is taking place.  After my reframing it changed to a medium shot.  This gives more emphasis of emotion because you are able to analyze the owl more closely, and see the facial expressions