I loved your pictures. My favorite is the window in the girls bathroom. Your pictures and quotes go so well together. I feel you have a consistent theme with all of your slides, and you greatly captured each scene perfectly while accompanying it with a fitting quote. I also liked the font type/color.....it gave a really mysterious and creepy feeling with the pictures/quotes.
I like the picture you used a lot. I think with this story it was best to just go as creepy as possible. I didn't really get the sunset with the other pictures
Your photos were very good. I really like the tenth one in the series. It's very well done, and it appears as if it's an ink drawing, ala Edward Gorey/Aubrey Beardsley/Tim Burton. Nice work in keeping with the macabre!
I have to agree with BobDole about the sunset -- too cliched happiness/beauty to fit with "Usher" but Mary's comment was interesting about the sun being sucked into the ocean...kinda works. My personal favorite it the series of stairways. The three pics go from darker to brighter and your eye follows the stairs in a kind of inevitable way; there's a kind of insistence in the images like you can't help but go down the stairs. This reminds me of Usher's inevitable downward spiral. The reader knows it's coming; just a matter of time. the quotation gives a similar impression that the steps on the stairs are coming nearer, the heart is beating faster, and death is drawing nigh!
I like the books photo two, the colors, the symmetry. I'm not sure it does a lot to enhance our understanding of the quote but I like the image. #7 looks very similar to what I imagine the catacombs in Cask of Amontillado to look like. I think the quote is describing Usher's painting and this isn't quite what I picture for that but it's in keeping with the whole mood of the story. #6 is a nice tie in to the quote. The perspective makes the viewer kind of squint and turn to see what's inside the door, just as the narrator describes his response to a closing door. Nice job with perspective. #4 to me represents a dream. The room and window is reality and one's mind, and the foggy outside is a dream that shifts and changes. Fits the quote. #2 represents something that was once functional and well-cared for but is now overgrown and neglected, like the house of Usher and even Usher's mind itself. Good job!
I really enjoyed this photo essay. The red, black, and white color scheme throughout helps to create an atmosphere of gloom, which Poe conveys throughout the story. The slide of the wheel is a good representation of this dreary setting due to the black and white washout effects. The wheel not only fits the quote literally by depicting the narrator's transportation to the House of Usher but also figuratively by the circle's representation of his journey towards inevitable death. In the picture of the plant on the wall, the lack of life in the plant and how it droops down adds to the saddness and gloom of the story. The picture of the window in the girls' bathroom is a good representation of the dark atmosphere because the reflection on the window appears to look like fog. The slide of the cracked open door adds suspense because I found myself wanting to know what was beyond it, which could connect to the narrator's search to unlock the secrets helf within the House of Usher. Slide #7 is a good image of what the vault Madeline was buried within may have looked like. The picture of the stairs is interesting. The repetition of the picture of the stairs made me think of the continuous repetition of a heartbeat - which was mentioned in the given quote. The black and white fuzzy picture of the silhouette is also extremely creepy.
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I loved your pictures. My favorite is the window in the girls bathroom. Your pictures and quotes go so well together. I feel you have a consistent theme with all of your slides, and you greatly captured each scene perfectly while accompanying it with a fitting quote. I also liked the font type/color.....it gave a really mysterious and creepy feeling with the pictures/quotes.
I like the picture you used a lot. I think with this story it was best to just go as creepy as possible. I didn't really get the sunset with the other pictures
Your photos were very good. I really like the tenth one in the series. It's very well done, and it appears as if it's an ink drawing, ala Edward Gorey/Aubrey Beardsley/Tim Burton. Nice work in keeping with the macabre!
I have to agree with BobDole about the sunset -- too cliched happiness/beauty to fit with "Usher" but Mary's comment was interesting about the sun being sucked into the ocean...kinda works.
My personal favorite it the series of stairways. The three pics go from darker to brighter and your eye follows the stairs in a kind of inevitable way; there's a kind of insistence in the images like you can't help but go down the stairs. This reminds me of Usher's inevitable downward spiral. The reader knows it's coming; just a matter of time. the quotation gives a similar impression that the steps on the stairs are coming nearer, the heart is beating faster, and death is drawing nigh!
I like the books photo two, the colors, the symmetry. I'm not sure it does a lot to enhance our understanding of the quote but I like the image.
#7 looks very similar to what I imagine the catacombs in Cask of Amontillado to look like. I think the quote is describing Usher's painting and this isn't quite what I picture for that but it's in keeping with the whole mood of the story.
#6 is a nice tie in to the quote. The perspective makes the viewer kind of squint and turn to see what's inside the door, just as the narrator describes his response to a closing door. Nice job with perspective.
#4 to me represents a dream. The room and window is reality and one's mind, and the foggy outside is a dream that shifts and changes. Fits the quote.
#2 represents something that was once functional and well-cared for but is now overgrown and neglected, like the house of Usher and even Usher's mind itself.
Good job!
I really enjoyed this photo essay. The red, black, and white color scheme throughout helps to create an atmosphere of gloom, which Poe conveys throughout the story. The slide of the wheel is a good representation of this dreary setting due to the black and white washout effects. The wheel not only fits the quote literally by depicting the narrator's transportation to the House of Usher but also figuratively by the circle's representation of his journey towards inevitable death. In the picture of the plant on the wall, the lack of life in the plant and how it droops down adds to the saddness and gloom of the story. The picture of the window in the girls' bathroom is a good representation of the dark atmosphere because the reflection on the window appears to look like fog. The slide of the cracked open door adds suspense because I found myself wanting to know what was beyond it, which could connect to the narrator's search to unlock the secrets helf within the House of Usher. Slide #7 is a good image of what the vault Madeline was buried within may have looked like. The picture of the stairs is interesting. The repetition of the picture of the stairs made me think of the continuous repetition of a heartbeat - which was mentioned in the given quote. The black and white fuzzy picture of the silhouette is also extremely creepy.
Interesting comments Gillette -- I especially liked the wheel observations and the repeating stair pattern reminding you of a heartbeat...
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