American Soldier

A.   I think the most powerful picture printed in the Denver Post is the one called, A Mothers Wish. I think that this picture is the most powerful out of all of the pictures because Ian is getting baptized and accepting Jesus christ into his life. This even took place on his mothers birthday and his mother said,"I feel like he has a little extra in his pocket to watch over him." Ian was also baptized before he was going to be deployed so this was especially very meaningful to his mother.

B.   I think the images throughout the Denver Post work together to show a story because it shows Ian from the beginning wanting to be in the army and then it shows when he goes off to training, says goodbye to his parents. This also shows when Ian is growing up being deployed, baptized etc. This is showing how Ian is growing up and all that he went through to become who he wants to be.

C.    The captions enhance the photographs in Denver Post because without the captions the story is still shown but more emotion and feeling comes through from the picture when you know what Ian and his family thinks and says.

D.    The story from the captions starts when Ian Fisher is guaranteed a spot on the years enlisting. Ian graduates from school and then before he is about to leave he goes to the recruiting office to talk to the people to expect the kind of things that Ian will be doing while there. Ian has parties with his families and friends and then says goodby and leaves for training. On the first day of training Ian hurts his elbow. Ian then goes through training and gets his rifle badge. Ian then picked out an engagement ring while he was with his girlfriend and then proposed on christmas. Ian then went through more and more injuries but then finally recovered and got baptized on his mothers birthday. Then, he got deployed soon after to Iraq. Ian after coming back was then deployed again and after he came back he got married to his girlfriend.

E.   In the photos the pictures and captions for the majority are written in present tense.

F.
    1. The captions are around 2 to 3 sentences on average.
    2. For the first sentence the captions normally give a who, what, when, where and why.
    3. For the second sentence they give more detail about where they are and sometimes a quote.
    4. The third sentence, if there is a third sentence normally explains extra detail or finishing a quote      of what the person (Ian) thinks.
    5. A lot of the captions in this Denver Post provide a quote to show the feeling and emotion of the photos that were captured.
    6. There are some captions  throughout the newspaper that have four sentences but that is only if multiple people have a quote or there is a lot of information to be shown.


G.   I think it is possible to tell a complete story with photos and captions because a picture can capture so much emotion and the caption can get people to really understand all of the emotion that is trying to be displayed.

H.   Even though you can create a story with photos and captions I think it is important to also write stories because sometimes you have to create a story to a picture and be creative and sometimes you need a lot of explanation to what is happening in the story.