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Words and images in pursuit of honours
Exercise 1: Comments on the given images – how they portray movement. Derek Trillo, Passing place, Manchester, 2006. The figures in this image appear ghost-like, with the combination of their blurred outlines set against the hard lines of the staircase, and the bleeding of colour around their edges. In the images by Harold Edgerton: Bullet …
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Exercise 1. What makes photographs unique as an art form? The camera is a tool, like a knife is a tool. Just as a knife can be used to create good food, create something of use or harm others, the camera can be used by the photographer for a wide range of desired results, from …
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Exercise 1: The next big thing As a piece of contemporary visual communication, I have chosen an album cover: Taylor Swift’s 2020 album ‘Evermore’. Browsing for contemporary album artwork I noticed how this says something about the artist and, possibly (I haven’t heard the album) about the material. What is striking is that, while record …
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Exercise 1: What does this apple mean? An interesting question is posed by the title of this exercise. What, indeed, does any image mean? The answer, I suspect, is ‘anything we choose it to mean’, for connotations we place on images and icons are constructs. Images are appropriated for the purposes of those making the …
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Exercise 1: Mixed messages. Enjoy your stay: written in a Gothic font. Gives the impression horror fans would enjoy their stay. Good for a themed hotel, but only if the theme is ‘Stay awake tonight’. DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS THEY ARE DANGEROUS: written in a serif font. We are used to warning signs being …
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Exercise 1: Identifying visual communications Persuasion. Convincing people to do something, buy something, change a behaviour. This subversion of Magritte’s famous ‘Ceci n’est pas une pomme’ is used to advertise insurance, playing with the idea of repurposing an image. Information. Image to relay useful information. Here, the use of graphics and other images can help …
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Exercise 1: The Road has an omniscient narrator. First person narrator re-write: ‘I pushed the cart and both the boy and I carried knapsacks. In the knapsacks we kept essential things in case we had to abandon the cart and make a run for it. Clamped to the handle of the cart, I had attached …
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Exercise 1: poems on the theme of ‘Place’. In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland speaks about place in relation to identity and exile. He looks at the shore of Dublin Bay and imagines how it must have looked to those leaving in exile under cover of night. In The Hereford Landscape, Elizabeth Barrett Browning evokes …
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Exercise 1: I have decided to map the film The Shawshank Redemption against The Hero’s Journey. This is a a 1994 American film drama, written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Act 1 – Beginning Ordinary world. This is not shown at the …
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The Textual Revolution. What happens to a story when it is printed and disseminated? It becomes fixed, at least in that point in time – it no longer evolves as it would in verbal retelling. The recorded version can become a shared experience, where people can discuss the work from a fixed perspective, being the …
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