In relation to the presentations, I was more drawn to No
Seconds. I like that what one presentation did not have though, the other did.
For example, No Seconds showed the age of the criminal and what they did to
have the death penalty placed upon them while The Last Meal Project did not. On
the other hand, The Last Meal Project has photos of those given the death
penalty as well as when they were executed while No Seconds did not. I think
that if the two presentations were combined it would make a more chilling
presentation than the two already are by themselves.
I loved the artistic aspect of No Seconds. As a photography
nut, I enjoyed how extravagant or empty the plates looked. You almost get a
sense of the person just by how Hargreaves sets up the food, silverware and
table settings. Hargreaves wants the audience to see the food and relate it to
the criminal and what they stood for, how they thought of themselves and how
they were in general. They are all very distinctive to the individual and when
you put the photographs together with the age and reason they were given the
death penalty, it all draws a bigger image for the audience.
As for The Last Meals project, I liked the aspect of the mug
shot of the criminal and the time that they were executed. You can see that
they’re just people. Plain and simple. They’re people just like you’d see
anywhere. The time shows us a more likeliness aspect (I think that’s what I’m
trying to say anyways) if this were to happen. For instance more recent times, it’s
not as prominent as it was in the past. Another technique that was brought into
The Last Meals Project was that of outside information. It tells the audience
what the Lethal Injections consist of, how the executioner’s position is, the
normal meals of inmates on death row, facts about the death penalty, the race
of homicide victims that resulted in a death sentence, countries ranks with
executions, and how much is spent on the death penalty each year. That, to me,
adds another more educational aspect to the presentation.
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