American Soldier Slideshow and Captions

1A. The most powerful image in the slideshow would have to be the one where Buddha, Ian and Cody are saying their goodbyes, Because Ian says and promises that he will pray for his buddies and that he will fight for them as much as he can. 

B. Set #1 Home at denver: 1- 9. 

Set #2 Basic training: 10-49. 

Set #3 In Iraq: 50- 70.

Set #4 Back in Denver: 70-83. 

The set of images that was the most powerful was Home at Denver because this is when he is saying bye to everyone that they will miss him and pray for him. This is the scene where everyone cry's for Ian. 

 

C. The images work together to tell a story by his life in Denver and then his life after Iraq they come together to say how he is strong he is being for leaving everyone in denver and going to go fight for everyone, it tells a story about his life span from then till Iraq. 

 

3A. The tense that the verbs are usually written in an the captions of Ian would be Past tense: "I've been thinking about everyone" "I get attached to some of them" "Ian catches a smoke on the way to the camp"

B. The captions enhance the photographs because just by looking at the photo you can tell what there doing but the captions enhance and image and story in your head and tells you the meaning to that photograph and how sentimental that photo is. 

4A. Image 38: 

Ian catched a smoke in his bed, due to Ian was somewhere he is not suppose to be and is really struggling hard on his breakup with Kayla. Ians father is concerned about Ian being in danger of AWOL, Ian had skipped out on carson due to his breakup as well. 

B. Image 4:

Ian had take one last trip to Elitch gardens Amusment park, he rode on the ferris wheel with his girlfriend and some other friends before leaving to Iraq. His girlfriend had kissed him on his cheek ad well. 

C. Image 7: 

Ian drove away leaving Shane and Buddha weeping and missing him realizing this is the real deal, while sitting on Shanes car. They had realized how real the situation was and couldn't handle it very well. 

5A. These other features enhances the photographs by expressing the story of Ian and showing his story by the features to show how he feels and how his friends and family feels. 

B. The videos are better than the photographs due to you can understand his story more, like Ian had said "I don't think mentally I could deal with actually being with somebody while I'm in Iraq." He couldn't commit to a relationship without not knowing what she's doing or not having his mind cleared about her. 

C. The photos are better than the videos compared to you can relate to an image by reading the caption which makes you think and understand it more because your reading it and not just hearing it, like Ian had said "Im gunna fight for you guys everyday."