This is my story final.
Our hero is sent onto a journey from his grandfather Joe. He has turned 18, and he must pass the tests to prove himself to become a man. Grandfather Joe is assigning our mysterious hero his trial to become a man. Our unknown is to travel across the land to retrieve their family heirloom. To get there, he must travel through long distances, track his way through unknown lands and fight perilous villains on his journey to become a man.
Our unknown hero starts his journey, he is given the cloak of his grandfather, and the stick of his grandfather. He has tracked through the known villages that is around his house, and is fully rested. He is currently surveying the land that he is to explore, he has not been outside his village, and the neighboring villages. As he sits there watching, he hopes that his grandfather is okay, and is excited for what holds before him.
Through the journey, the peculiar hero comes into a conflict with bandits, trying to take his prized tiger skin. This was one of the many perilous activities that he must endure through and survive. As he fights the bandit, he remembers his past training where he sparred with his brothers. Towards the end of the fight, the bandit knows that he cannot win, and runs away in fear as our hero faced his first victory in the wild.
Our faceless hero encountered many trials, from traveling in the desert, to fighting bandits. As he reflects upon his journey, he begins to weep. Maybe it was because of him missing his grandfather, maybe it was because the trials have taken its toll on his soul. We do know that our hero is suffering from homesickness. Our hero has had a lot of time too, to think about his life and his purpose. He realizes that the journey is not really about going through the trials and hardships, but this journey is to develop who he is, what he thinks about himself and his purpose in life. Our hero left home right after planting season, and has taken him many moon cycles to reach where he is now. He knows he is close to his destination, and he cannot believe that this trip is almost finished.
Weeks after his realization of who he is, our hero finally reaches the village his grandfather described that holds their family treasure. As he goes through the town, he is taken to a Buddhist temple where his treasure is told to be. He goes into the temple, and bows respectably to the Buddha before he approaches the box. He opens the box, and a light shines out of it. It wasn't an expensive or rare object that he was to retrieve, but a blank piece of paper and a brush. Our hero is puzzled at first, but after a while he begins to see the true meaning of these two objects. His life is blank like a piece of paper, and the choices he can make is the brush. He must take the brush and begin to start his life. He has the power within his hands, and can do whatever he wants.
We finally see the face of our hero. He is just a normal man, like me and you. He isn't super incredibly smart, nor dumb. Not super strong nor weak. He is just another person. His lesson of retrieving the paper and brush reflects how not just he should live, but how all people should live. Our lives are in our hands, we hold the brush in the paper of life. Whatever we want to do, write and convey is what we choose to do.
what an amazing deep and moving story .... I LOVE IT except yo the photoshop on a couple pics is a lil off and some pics are too cool toned ya feel .... but wow ur shoot is amazin i love the direction you took. my fave pic is the last one bc finally we see that our hero is JUST LIKE US. AMAZING also why the hell is joe even a plausible name his name should be mysterious and whimsical pls
ReplyDeleteI like the one where he gazes pensively into the distance (the second photo). It is the strongest composition wise. I think the last is the weakest because he is really centered but I like the depth of field. The story exists and is super intense. Leave him alone Clair, Joe is a whimsical!
ReplyDeleteI love it Max it looks super cool and the story really flows together. My favorite picture is the first one because it can tell a story all on its own. And my least favorite picture is the last one because I feel like he just looks awkward and not to be rude but a little bit like a hobo. Over all it was a really good concentration. And the only thing I would change is adding more of a personal style to the photos like a different tone or something.
ReplyDeletegood job with the story part, unlike most peoples it was actually a story like whoa good job. so creative. i like the second to last picture the best, with the lights. it's soooo magical. i feel like the ones of alex were sort of last minute, but they still work with the story. niiiiiiiiiiiiice job.
ReplyDeleteThese look good Max! It was easy to follow the story through the pictures but also through your captions too. I like how the pictures all have a similar tone to them, color wise, there isn’t much change and so it’s easy to tell that they’re all connected to each other. My favorite was the fifth picture because I love the Photoshop work, it looks really good. My least favorite was the first picture because I feel like the tree is awkwardly there and interrupting this important moment in the story haha. I think if you changed locations a little more it would be more interesting. Overall I really liked these. : )
ReplyDeletethe story kind of makes sense. It is a story. My favorite photo would be the 5th one I like the light thing in the box and it’s a good angle you can really capture the photo. The first one is my least favorite one, I just don’t get it. I think you could have taken better pictures over all, I mean it was a cool idea and the photos match, just make them more interesting next time, good job!
ReplyDeleteThe story does make sense. It is indeed a story and a good one, too. Overall I think the story is great and you have some good photos. The best photo I think is the one with the “bandit” brandishing the white sword thing. I like this one because of the clarity and the lines. One not so good I thought was the second one because of the photoshop work. The repeating pattern in the background is somewhat distracting. Improvement would be to fix that and maybe fix the color/lighting. It’s a little underexposed in my opinion. But it’s understandable that we had limited time on this assignment.
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