Preview

English - Distinctly Visual

Better Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1002 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
English - Distinctly Visual
What important elements have helped to create distinctive and effective visual impacts in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other related text of your own choosing?
Prescribed Text: The Shoe-Horn Sonata
Related Text: The Truman Show

The utilization of elements used by John Misto in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and Peter Weir in The Truman Show help the audiences create distinctive and effective visual images. The elements used are Projected Images, Symbolism, Use of Interviewers, Sense of truth / Overcoming adversity, and metaphors. Both texts are distinctly visual which means the elements are crucial in creating the images beyond the texts.

The composer of The Shoe Horn Sonata, John Misto, utilizes projected imagery in a way to create effective visual impacts that bring the audience to an understanding of the P.O.W camp. In Act One, Scene Five Misto uses a photograph of starving children, who are the innocent victims of war. These photographs are used to take the modern audience who weren’t there back to the times of the P.O.W camps and help them understand the nature and effects the camp had on the individuals. This creates distinctive visual impacts towards the audience or reader by letting the images stay on the screen whilst there is no acting, this helps the audience take in the full effect.

The director of The Truman Show, Peter Weir, uses metaphors to project images to the audience. The audience of the Truman show is confronted with the metaphor of media’s portrayal on reality television. The audience is forced to look at the modern television world that they are surrounded by and the way that the big companies twist news, reality shows, political affairs in to theatrical illusions. This makes the audience think about the society they live in and the way media portrays and exploits lives.

Setting various scenes in a T.V studio allows Misto to use the element of an interviewer. The interviewer allows Misto to convey a great deal of information in a way

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Through the important elements the responder is placed in a position to experience the different impacts and emotions associated with the texts. These techniques allow the distinctively visual to have the power to manipulate the audience's expectations and strong feelings towards the texts. The Shoe-horn Sonata written by John Misto and the short film, 'Lovefield' directed by Mathieu Ratthe allows the responder to experience both positive and negative themes associated with the texts such as power, war, friendship and bravery which therefore enables them to explore new emotions and experiences that may be unfamiliar to them. Elements such as effective visual and distinctive techniques have been used to create vivid images associated with…

    • 297 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Peter Weir’s film ‘The Truman Show’ is about a corporation that has imprisoned Truman Burbank into an artificial world for the entertainment of an audience watching him on a television show. Even though Truman’s world of Seahaven is full of actors and artificial relationships, authenticity manages to creep into his life. These relationships range from people who barely feel a relation to Truman as a product such as Christof and the audience. Additionally there a people who feel a real connection to Truman such as Sylvia, this is made visible as the effects of her removal.…

    • 690 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    For this event paper, I decided to see a movie on the bottom floor of the J Standish Library at Siena College. I saw The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey who played Truman Burbank. The Truman Show is about a television show that has recorded the life of Truman ever since he was born. The television show is a worldwide phenomenon, the only catch is Truman does not know his whole life has been recorded. Every person in his life is an actor, and the producer of the show determines the fate of his life, from his marriage to Meryl to the faked death of his “father”. The life of Truman Burbank connects to the theme Voice and the story Plato, Allegory of the Cave because, in the end after discovering the truth of his life, Truman leaves the set and starts a new life in the real world on his own.…

    • 714 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A composer uses techniques in order to influence and create a lasting impression on the responder. John Misto’s aim is to increase awareness of the women’s suffering during the war, allowing the responder to acknowledge the women, which will convince society to pay tribute to the women. He uses a variety of techniques which involve many senses of the responder in The Shoe-Horn Sonata to achieve this goal. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is based on two women who helped each other through hardships during World War II; they are reunited after fifty years to film a television documentary which unravels many secrets. The involvement of more than one sense…

    • 900 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Psy 360 Final Exam

    • 1784 Words
    • 8 Pages

    1. Identify a similar occurrence (for example, the representation of a city, the discovery of a clue, the inclusion of a red herring, a depiction of a crime scene, or inner monologue) in a film/TV episode and a short story/novel/play from class. How does the medium (i.e., being filmed or written) change the representation? (15)…

    • 1784 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Main devices: Dramatic irony, setting, lighting, stage directions, temporal and spatial parameters (boundaries of time and space.) and the inspector himself.…

    • 808 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Through the use of techniques, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing setting and characters which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques to create distinctively visual images which help us to convey an understanding and form a meaning is evident in the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, the film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, and the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost.…

    • 1275 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    PROMPT: How does Peter Weir use film techniques to explore themes within ‘The Truman Show’. Discuss.…

    • 191 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Distinctively Visual

    • 1000 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Throughout life the decisions we make, the chances we take result in consequence, whether that be positive or negative, shaping the way a person lives life. Tom Tykwer’s film ‘Run Lola Run’ and Dorthea Mackellar’s poem ‘My Country’. Both convey the impact and effect of situations and encounters have on a person.…

    • 1000 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In The Truman Show, we are presented with a metaphor for our own manipulative media situation. The stage-set town of Seahaven where Truman has grown up and lives, is completely artificial. Truman, completely unaware of this, carries on being absorbed in his stage-set world, convinced that it's real, while his every move, relationship and life is broadcasted to millions of people around the world. Seahaven is a representation of our own media landscape, in which we are constantly immersed in and where news, politics, advertising and public affairs are made up of theatrical illusions.…

    • 916 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The viewer, after having watched the Truman Show, could reflect on his/her own world and realize how he/ she is growing inside a system based on manipulation, control, and simulation. Thanks to the movie, he/she could, consequently, make a step towards the development of a free/true consciousness. • Ideology is understood in its oppressive sense. A critical viewer raises his/her voice and claims that the Truman Show is no more than a mere movie, fitting into the norm of the dominant-hegemonic order.…

    • 437 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Loev of

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The Truman Show is not just an entertainment, though entertaining it is. An amazing cinematic statement about the problems of appearance and reality that so dominate post-modern thinking in the American academy today, this movie can teach us much about the desperation of current American cultural life.…

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Truman Show Essay

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The opening sequence of the Peter Weir’s film begins with a close up of Ed Harris, who plays Christof, the director of the television program ‘The Truman Show’. The round rimmed glasses of which he wears suggests a quality of intelligence. In this scene, Christof argues that there is truth in Truman though he concedes the counterfeit quality of the world he created. He…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The film Othello by director Oliver Parker, is based on the Shakespearean tragedy based on the insecurities of one man, being played upon leading to his undoing at the hands of the one he most trusts, ?honest Iago?. In this essay, we look at how this age old play is dealt with by the medium of film, reviewing the director?s ability to provide an effect caused by insight into the play?s mechanization and interpretation of such affected by visual mastery. This analysis focuses mainly on techniques and devices used to achieve this and their effect.…

    • 2007 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Truman Show

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Illusion...this theme is used all through the film...mainly in the scenes showing the audience watching the Truman show on TV. its meaning how do we know when the media is in control of our lives...is it when we watch every episode no matter what, like the man in the bathtub...is it when we can’t fall asleep without the noise of the TV, like the two little old ladies...or when it’s more important than our work, like the security guard and the waitresses at the bar. There is no definite line but we have to make sure that it’s just to entertain not to actually take over our lives. This theme is very important because the media is all around us all of the time. And it’s hard to not get stuck in an…

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays