Ian Fisher: American Soldier

Two:
A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
To me the most powerful image is the one where Ian and his father are in the store. They are holding on to each other and spending all the time they have together even if its just going to the store. This photo shows that they are really close.

B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
Chapter 3: Basic Training is the most powerful sequence because all of that training is hard and sometimes unbearable, i went through this for a week and i stuck it out til the end. Imagine doing this for about 6 months and its your life, your job.

C. How do the images work together to tell a story?
The images in Chapter 3 worked together to tell a story about how training goes and how truly hard it is to go through all of this. Your day is waking up before the sun comes out to do physical training, you have breakfast chow during chow you are not allowed to look around or speak and you have to sit at attention while eating,you are away from your family and the only way to contact them is through letters, some dont believe in religion before they enter the military but after seeing how everything truly is your views change on religion and life itself, everybody thinks that the military is all serious no fun no play but really there are moments where you are ordered to be professional but there are moments where you bond with your peers and CTO's, you are there to learn from your officers and also from your peers, you absorb everything that is there and it becomes like your second home, you catch all the sleep you can get and all the space for your mind. I learned all of this in the week of my training camp and Chapter 3 told the same story i just said.

Three:
A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?
It was written by somebody that was following his life from enlisting into the army, basic training, deploy, and his personal life.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
The captions enhance the photos because they tell me a story behind the photo, which i love because i always ask questions and to have reasons for almost everything. These captions give me the story of what going on in the photo and with Ian.

Four:
A. Ian getting a series of shots for anthrax and smallpox photo
Caption: Ian is crying in pain as the nurse gives him a shot at St. Austin Hospital.

Five:
A. How do these other features enhance the photographs?
Ian, his father, his mother, and his recruiter telling us Ian's story enhances the photos because their is more emotions in each photo because of their stories, its not the same as us reading the captions ourselves.

B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from theDenver Post Web site.
The videos are better than the photographs because we get more of a story than the captions and the photo. Such as the first video from the denverpost.com Ian's mother was talking about how she was worried that he is leaving to the army she began bursting into tears not wanting him to go and he was telling us about Ian's friends telling him not to go that he would die. The image of him hugging his friends the guy was telling us about how they said bye to him and how heartbreaking it was to see him leave off in the car.
C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site
Some photos are better than videos because the photo captures the moment and you keep it by your side for as long as you want. For example in the "Army Blues" his fiancee at that moment, Kayla Spitzlberger, was telling us about how Ian proposed to her as she was telling us their story there were photos of him proposing to her. Moments that you would cherish for the rest of your life you would want all of the pictures of the little things, such as him getting on his knee proposing, her blushing, and them two hugging.