This photograph is quite grey due to the day being overcast, therefore the soft pastel green shop is now the focal point. This gives a dull mood over the photograph which links to the depressed theme that I am exploring in my personal investigation. The weather creates a certain mood, which is often a technique used in films called pathetic fallacy. If I was going to take this idea pf using media further to moving image then I could use the weather to promote a desired mood. However, this would be difficult to carry out as the English weather is incredibly unpredictable. The white line in the centre of the road carries the viewer's eye across the photograph nearer the bottom. As this is at a slight angle, the eye is taken from the closer objects to the far ones. The road takes up half of the photograph which I think provides a dark mood effectively due to its large size. The single white line proves how much one mark can affect the way that a composition is perceived. Its rigid nature reflects how a depressed mood isn't easily shaken. Furthermore, the light brown buildings enforce a theme of nature into the photograph as this is an earthy colour. This could represent how some individual's use nature to escape their mental illness by going on long walks or bike rides through the countryside. It has been proven that exercising helps with dealing with illnesses such as depression and so the light brown colour offers a sense of hope.
I have taken this from a low angle so that the height of the chimney is then emphasised, making it seem larger than it actually is. I wanted to represent how one issue for one person may be even worse for another as it is all about different perspectives. I think that this photograph accentuates how people perceive and react to situations differently and so it is important to be mindful when forming an opinion of another. For example, leaving the house for many is not a worry or a struggle, but for someone who is depressed it can be. As the sky in the background is nearly all one colour, it contrasts this idea of us all being the same. There is a lot of tone in this photograph, which gets heavier the further you look downwards. This reflects how the deeper you get to know someone, the more depressed truths that you come to see and understand. Therefore, this photograph portrays how depression is often hidden by the individual. I have made sure that the building to the right is also in focus as there is a varying amount of tone in it. I did this so that it is noticeable that a person's character is built from many different experiences that they have had, spanning from grievance to marriage. These experiences affect our day-to-day lives and so I wanted to emphasise the importance of being mindful of each other's differences when we interact with one another.
In this photograph I like the how the light has hit the road and draws the viewer's attention to the curvature of it. This curved line is interesting and I will look at using curved line in my experiments. This curved line emphasises depression as being a journey, this is because a person; becomes depressed, is depressed and then overcomes depression. It is one that is unknown as you can't predict recovery as each case is individual to that person. The white lines emphasise the direction of this journey and reflect that the individual will always reach some sort of obstacle due to their disjointed nature. The road surface looks very smooth, almost slippery as it had previously rained which contrasts that the progress in recovery will fluctuate. There is an overall dull mood to this photograph too as the day itself was grey and heavy. As the road narrows the further away that it gets, this represents how the journey to recovery is unknown and can therefore be somewhat scary. The hills in the very background are covered in trees which appear fuzzy in texture in the photograph, this further accentuates the idea of the unknown. The curved shape of the road and the straight buildings contrast each other which could reflect conflicting emotions towards recovery. There is a large sense of space at the bottom of the photograph which shows how there is plenty of room for many emotions to be occurring in a depressed mind set.
The blue umbrella contrasts the grey slabs as it is so vibrant. These two colours provide a contrast between a depressed mind set and a sign of hope due to the blue being so bright. As there are people in this photograph, it is clearer that my theme revolves around individuals and their situations. Furthermore, the cobbled bridge is smooth but also disjointed and so this portrays how recovery is the right thing to do but it will be a rocky ride to get to the end goal of not being depressed anymore. As the bridge is cobbled, this provides many different lines and shapes within the photograph which contribute to how depression is caused by many different factors that we experience in our lives. The sides of the bridge almost reflect how an individual can have support through this and how professionals can give them guidance in how to maintain a positive structure to achieve being depression-free. The light is hitting the area where the lady with the blue umbrella has previously walked and so this reflects how she is on the right path to recovery as the light provides a theme of hope. As there are two more people in front of her, this shows that many people have overcome depression before and that the individual can do it themselves too. Therefore, overall this photograph suggests how depression isn't an illness that should isolate you, you should be able to seek help from others for advice and guidance to recover.
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