I chose these three images that indicated fire, because the poem “Ephemera” is about a fire and how someone is fighting it. I chose images that were more simple and didn’t have a background story with them. I chose this because the poem does not give details about how the fire was caused or were it was, but instead lets the reader use their imagination. I felt like these photos lets the reader keep thinking of possibilities. This is an example of semantic narrative interplay, because it allows the reader to know a little about the reading but still gets them thinking about the details.

For the smoke image I would like to do some text overlay and have the text follow the smoke throughout the page. This would be an example of typographic layers, causing a poetic look to the broadside.

The other two images I was thinking about using as a background and the text be the foreground, again as a typographic layer. I will use digital transparency to alter the opacity of the image in oder for the reader to see the text, or I will fade out the text so you can see through to the background. By changing the opacity and overall contrast allows the intensity to change.

These images tell the reader about what the poem will be about without saying too much. They build up the emotion of the poem before the reader even reads it. The dark backgrounds add to the dark emotion and feel of the poem.

image by Camila MP

image by drimage

image by Maro Gelleto