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After:
Let me guess. Didn’t you think, “Who are they?” as soon as you saw the first image? (or “What does it say?”) How about the second image? Do you think you know him? Or do you think you’ve seen him somewhere before? If you still can’t get it, then I’ll give you a hint: Squid Game 🦑
If you ever watched ‘Squid Game’ on Netflix, then you’ll probably recognize him. He is the lead actor and the most famous actor from Squid Game.
I was browsing my iPhone gallery to see if there was any image I could use for the Composition assignment. And I found something interesting. This is the photo I took last August when I was in South Korea. I had a chance to go to the stage greeting for a Korean movie called ‘Hunt.’ In South Korea, when a movie is released, the actors and directors perform stage greetings in the movie theaters for about two weeks for promotion. My seat was a little bit far away from the stage. My hands and eyes were very busy taking photos, taking videos, watching actors, and checking my phone screen to make sure I take good photos and videos. I thought this image would be an excellent example to make it derivative. I decided to crop the original image to create a new focal point: Lee Jung-jae, the most famous Squid Game actor (& 2022 Emmy winner!).
The main focus in the original image is obviously the actors. Therefore, I cropped the Korean words on the movie screen and the fans sitting. The two actors in the image are both famous in South Korea. Squid Game was very popular globally. So, I decided to crop the actor on the right and emphasize a focal point on the Squid Game actor on the left.
I wonder if anybody watched the Squid Game and recognized him. 😆
Hi Jenny! Your post is very interesting. I didn’t watch Squid Game, but I did recognize the actor, Lee Jung-jae. It took me a second to realize that it was from the Netflix series. The way that you cropped the photo completely changed the composition of the photo. The subject changed and the final product tells a somewhat different story. Thank you!
Hey Jenny,
I have not watched “Squid Games,” but I guess this is my sign to watch it now! The idea to remove the second actor and the title of the movie from the top of the image was a great one. This way, the new image tells a new story with a new focal point. I wonder, however, if you had left a little bit of the fans (i.e., up to the person with the phone immediately to the right of Lee Jung-Jae), so that the image looked less blurry and more contextualized. It would still achieve what you aimed for, but it would be more polished.