When I was doing the framing assignment, I was with a fellow classmate and I have to admit that I still felt silly walking around campus peering through a cardboard frame. Once I got used to it, I understood why we were assigned to do so. One frame can tell an entirely different story than another, even if the subject remains the same. It helped that my fellow classmate, Grace, had a frame much smaller than mine, because I was able to compare two scenes with differently sized frames. Peering through my frame as I looked at Skillman, I saw the hustle and bustle of a busy, active library with students walking in and out, taking in both the library and its surroundings. Grace, however, had a different perspective, only seeing the building itself, which could have been entirely vacant without knowing school was in session. Both frames had the same subject but told different stories. If grace stepped backwards, however, and took in all the surroundings, it could have been a more similar experience. This is something important to consider when framing a photo or video—what are you including? What are you leaving out? How do those framing choices affect the story you are telling?
