Argument Collage Artist Statement

For the on and only pro image I had an image of a city as a background. I the had an image of a magnifying glass which shows us a terrorist crouching down with a background of a wall behind him. I had a red pathway targeting where he is hiding. I also added an image of the American sea to the handle to represent the United States finding the terrorist. I used the layer mask to make the terrorist fade into the magnifying glass. By doing this I was bale to have the magnifying glass have its glassy effect. I chose to place the magnifying glass out over the bigger half of the image so it seems more important. I also tried to find an image of the city so it was from bird’s eye view so that it would seem like it was impossible to spot anyone yet the magnifying glass was able to pinpoint the place.

For the first image that was con it shows how the president has to pick who the terrorist is between a boy tied up in a chair and an image of a person covered up in such a way we cannot see who they are, the person also caries a gun. Next the two images the president is thinking by reciting Ini mini miny mo and at random it seems he will pick who the territories is. I chose to make the two possible terrorists have a cloudy edge so it seems to be more of a thought bubble that the president created. To get the cloudy effect I used layer mask to make the image vanish. I played around with the flow and the opacity to make the image look like there is a white cloud around them. I wanted the president to have a questioning expression so that it ads to the emphases of him guessing. I had the two “terrorists” to the side in the genera direction to where the president is looking.

For the second image that was con it shows how the president has labeled both the people where we are fighting the war and the American solders as terrorists. I also had a quote that I found in one of my articles. “Those who are not with us are against us”. This was a quote I felt said what I wanted to show. I chose to make the two groups of enemies have a cloudy edge as well so it seems to be more of a thought bubble that the president created. It was to show how the president was labeling who was an enemy. To get the cloudy effect I used layer mask to make the extra section of the image vanish. I played around with the flow and the opacity to make the image look like there is a white cloud around them. I placed the images in the same way I did in the other image.