Image Analysis by That One Guy From Venus (Patrick McGill)

Image analysis by That One Guy from Venus (Patrick McGill)

During my elevator pitch I am trying to market myself to a kind of consumer. This is incredibly difficult for me as I consider myself to be one of the more boring members of my species. However as my friends have told me time and time again I am actually relatively interesting? Either way I decided for an all around approach to my pitch originally, however now I think I want to focus on my ASL and how that applies to my life and communication skills. I think it'll add a kind of mystery or wow factor which captures my audiences attention more vigorously than standing up there and telling everyone how I can shuffle cards better than most. Either way I am really starting to enjoy this project as I am forced to analyze myself closely for anything that can make a huge impact with as little words as possible.

Line - The lines in this picture offer a base for text and other images, the sign also can highlight a specific part of text or frame a phrase.

Color- this picture is lacking in color apart form the plain black and white.

Texture - While this picture is devoid of texture one can get a sense of it by relating the image to their own experience, or in this case hand.

Shape - The interesting part about this hand is that it is the ASL (American Sign Language) sign for the letter L. The hand can be used for many things but I always found that ASL just has a beauty to it that wasn't there before.

Light/Shadow - There isn't much to deal with light and shadow in this picture, except around the wrist which is there to add some depth to the picture as a whole.

Design/Layout - The picture is vertical, which means that if it was used for the elevator pitch it would have to be in a format where the words are inside the L. That can highlight the text without being too invasive, it also allows for some interesting font choices to go along with  it.

Style - ASL is very distinct and has a lot of signs which anyone can either recognize or relate to. Many new signs actually come from slang or other means of communication commonly found in English before evolving over to ASL.

Medium - This two dimensional image doesn't do much, however I found that it can highlight or give purpose to an otherwise dull block of text. The medium however looks to be a kind of ink and paper, nothing too exciting but just what I need for my Elevator Pitch.