Photo Board Post

Developing a photo board is a tasking experience. Not much is more fulfilling than pinning many pictures that tell one major story on a board. It is a pure work of art and what more it is extremely simple to create a photo board. Everybody can develop a photo board. My own photo board showed my life experiences thus far from living in Iran to moving to New Zealand, my appreciation for my family and the push for equality and human rights in the world of today. Also, my photo board covered a little history of world human rights such as the Cyrus Cylinder (Mallowan, 1972). The experience of creating a photo board was quite emotional to me. Staring at the pictures on my photo board I was taken back in time. I remembered moments I had long forgotten some of which made me cry. In creating a photo board I felt a great sense of accomplishment. Personally, creating a photo board was very fulfilling.

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What I learnt in creating a photo board was that pictures really are vivid memories (Berger, 1989). I learnt that colour and decorations have a way of breathing life to pictures. The photo board has a way of making one moment clear while at the same time conveying one specific message such as mine for treating people equally regardless of creed, religion, race or otherwise. A photo board showing the steps mankind has taken in achieving and continuing to achieve human rights, equality and peace is a touching experience which most times has an empowering power. It is a sort of call to action; it made me and others want to do something that would improve human rights.

Developing a photo board I learnt is much more than putting random pictures together and pinning them on a wall. In creating a photo board one has to have goals and objectives. There are questions anybody developing must ask themselves: What do I want to be seen clearly here besides the more obvious photos? What mood, what tone do I want to leave with the person viewing the photo board? What message should be conveyed? These and other questions should be the skeleton holding together the photo board. I learnt that developing a photo board is a work of art and it should not be hurried (Beittel, 1964).

Looking at other people's photo boards there was a lot I learnt. The colours and the decorations were in a wide array. They used creativity in no small amounts. The decorations and colour carried various moods and feelings- some were sad, others happy, others nonchalant, others dull, others outright crazy. Some were fun, there were others which were outright serious, and others were the complete opposite- very funny. I laughed a bit, other times I became solemn and a little sad, there were photo boards which made me want to shed a tear. The photo boards in short all had a specific feeling which their owners wanted to be felt. The messages were all there for everyone to see- the history of America over the last fifty years, the comic strips of the 1940s to date, personal experiences, Hollywood and the movie industry in America, music and so on. I learnt from somebody that some movie directors even use photo boards to plan their movies and visualize concepts (Katz,1991).

From my own photo board and others which I managed to sample (because photo boards are works of art) I understood the meaning of the common cliched saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. Several pictures? I lack words to say. Visual communication is the most vivid communication and photo boards are one of the most effective.

References

Beittel, K. R. (1964). Effect of Self-Reflective Training in Art on the Capacity for Creative Action.

Berger, A. A. (1989). Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication. Mayfield Publishing Company, 1240 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041.

Katz, S. D. (1991). Film directing shot by shot: visualizing from concept to screen. Gulf Professional Publishing.

Mallowan, M. (1972). Cyrus the Great (558-529 BC). Iran, 10, 1-17.