My PostSecret Card

The secret on my card was a confession from Angelina Jolie confessing that she continues to adopt children from other countries simply because it increases her fame and media attention. I conveyed this secret explicitly by stating it in words over the images. I used an image of a "celebrity star" in hollywood to represent the concept of fame that Angelina Jolie tries to gain through her adoptions. I also used an image of babies of all different races to represent both the quanitity of children Angelina Jolie has adopted, as well as the different places they came from. I let the images speak for themselves by leaving them large and taking up the entire postcard. I did not want my text to distract from the message that the images gave so I left the font small, simple, and a color that blended with the images behind it. I wanted to portray Angelina Jolie as ashamed but with no intention of changing her actions. She was coming clean about her motives for adopting but planned on continuing it. I wanted the viewer to feel shocked about the secret because often Angelina Jolie is portrayed in the media as a saint for adopting so many children from poor places of the world. The viewer should lose respect for her because of her motives.