Representational content: Unhappy person, Stock board (not obvious), urban landscape; Symbols: Text (horizontal); Underlying compositional structure: arrow-pointing upward, Red, white, text scale.
The photo displays a man sitting in front of the stock board with his back turning to viewers and his hand holding his head (seemed covering his eyes). The man seems unhappy. The scene of the man, the background of the Stock bard and the urban landscape are associated with economic issue, which resulted in the sadness of the man. When viewers move their eyes from left to right, they see the white text “UNEMPLOYMENT RATE” and the red arrow pointing upward to the text “RATE” which size is larger than other text. These elements added together emphasize the size of the “RATE” is large. The red on the arrow implicates alert and its upward direction helps guiding viewers eyes to the white text “UMEMPLOMENT RATE”. In addition, the red arrow pointing upward suggests unemployment rate rising. The English text can be replace with another text of language such as Chinese.
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