The Dorky Daddy “Day in the Life Photo Essay” and “Photo Essay: A Day
in the Life of Two Local Teens”
For this assignment, write a response in which you "read" (look at) the two examples of day-in-the -life photo essays provided for you.
"Photo essay" describes something that tries to communicate what a typical day is like using a combo of two different formats: pictures that show the day, and words that tell the story of the day.
Your job is to
- summarize the "story" that each of these two photo essays tells, and
- describe how they use pictures and text to do this
Some questions you might focus on for 1 are:
- What is the "story" of their day? If it were an actual story what sort of "themes" would it convey? How do each of these photo essays show what is basically "typical" in each day? If you had to relate the story of their day to someone else in words, what would you say?
Some questions for 2 are:
- what would you say is more important to the story–the pictures or the words Why? Provide some examples of how each author tries to depict their life using a photo only. For example. why use a picture of a bathtub faucet? Why do you think these authors chose to photograph certain aspects of their life and maybe not others? Given that all sorts of random things happen to you during the day, what sort of things did they want to capture?
You may also provide your own opinion on these photo essays. Do you find one set better than another? If you do have a preference, what makes one photo essay better than another to you?
Please organize your own thoughts in your response as much as possible. Your response should be 500-700 words (about one-and-a-half to two pages) total, typed format, and double-spaced.
https://thedorkydaddy.com/2014/06/07/day-in-the-life-a-photo-essay/
https://www.225batonrouge.com/article/photo-essay-day-life-two-local-teens