Photo

  • Green light
    • Self explanatory
    • Just out of focus
      • Unclear, unreachable
      • Upped the grain
        • Cool pointillism effect
        • Grain happens when a photo isn’t clear enough/high quality enough/doesn’t have enough detail
          • Emblematic of the “dream”
  • Phone booth:
    • Representation of Gatsby
    • Yellow/Gold exterior
      • Allure of wealth
    • Blue interior
      • False hope
  • Background
    • Black & white
    • Bubble filter on lights
      • Floating motif
    • Heavily out of focus, not of perceived importance
  • Composition
    • Subject pushed to left third
      • Isolated, only thing illuminated in an otherwise vast and dark environment
    • Cropped tight on y-axis
      • Green light is almost touching the top of the frame, as if the next moment it will move beyond the reach of the viewer’s eyes. The phone booth is close to follow.

Text

  •  “So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.” – Chapter 7, Page 145
  • Text is blended with a picture of old paper in photoshop