Distinctively Visual
Distinctively visual texts allow the responder to clearly understand the perspective of the composer.
How have two of the stories of Henry Lawson, and the film Punctured by Baker and Klein, allowed you to understand the composer's perspective through distinctively visual techniques?
Composers employ various techniques to create distinctively visual texts which enable responders to clearly imagine, form meaning and understand a composer’s unique perspective. Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’ realistically brings to life images of isolation and hardship in the Australian bush, Armin Geder’s picture book ‘The Island’ illustrates the alienation of a foreigner on a xenophobic island; and Nick Baker and Tristian Klein’s film ‘Punctured’ use similar distinctively visual qualities to exhibit images of loneliness. The aforementioned composers enable readers to envisage realistic themes of life and and understand their purpose through distinctively visual techniques.
Lawson uses distinctively visual techniques to portray the harshness of the Australian bush environment. In ‘The Drover's Wife’, Lawson describes the bush in negative overtones with nothing to alleviate its bleakness ‘stunted, rotten native apple trees’, ‘waterless creek’, ‘everlasting, maddening sameness.’ This is reinforced in “bush with no horizon... no ranges... no undergrowth...” Through cumulated negation and repetition of ‘no’ Lawson paints an uninviting and sparse setting for the story. Likewise, Lawson perpetuates the same idea in his ‘In a Dry Season.’ Lawson engages the reader immediately through the use of second person ‘you’ll’ and the imperatives ‘Draw’ and ‘add’ in the accumulation of images ‘Draw a wire fence and a few ragged gums, and add some scattered sheep away from the train.’ This allows the audience to participate in recreating the bush setting. The narrator’s negative impressions of the outback is evident in the stoic tone ‘the least horrible
How have two of the stories of Henry Lawson, and the film Punctured by Baker and Klein, allowed you to understand the composer's perspective through distinctively visual techniques?
Composers employ various techniques to create distinctively visual texts which enable responders to clearly imagine, form meaning and understand a composer’s unique perspective. Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’ realistically brings to life images of isolation and hardship in the Australian bush, Armin Geder’s picture book ‘The Island’ illustrates the alienation of a foreigner on a xenophobic island; and Nick Baker and Tristian Klein’s film ‘Punctured’ use similar distinctively visual qualities to exhibit images of loneliness. The aforementioned composers enable readers to envisage realistic themes of life and and understand their purpose through distinctively visual techniques.
Lawson uses distinctively visual techniques to portray the harshness of the Australian bush environment. In ‘The Drover's Wife’, Lawson describes the bush in negative overtones with nothing to alleviate its bleakness ‘stunted, rotten native apple trees’, ‘waterless creek’, ‘everlasting, maddening sameness.’ This is reinforced in “bush with no horizon... no ranges... no undergrowth...” Through cumulated negation and repetition of ‘no’ Lawson paints an uninviting and sparse setting for the story. Likewise, Lawson perpetuates the same idea in his ‘In a Dry Season.’ Lawson engages the reader immediately through the use of second person ‘you’ll’ and the imperatives ‘Draw’ and ‘add’ in the accumulation of images ‘Draw a wire fence and a few ragged gums, and add some scattered sheep away from the train.’ This allows the audience to participate in recreating the bush setting. The narrator’s negative impressions of the outback is evident in the stoic tone ‘the least horrible