Through the use of techniques and themes, a composer Is able to create distinctively visual Images when describing the setting and characters In detail which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts.The use of techniques such as body language, symbolism, lighting, music and photographic background slides create distinctively visual images same with themes that are being used within the texts such as truth which Is evident In the dramatic text 'The Shoe-Horn Sonata' by John Misto, the song 'Lose Yourself sang by Eminem, nd the film 'The Eye' directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud featuring Jessica Alba.
These three texts demonstrate how the responders are impacted and what is Interrupted within the text and there similarities that help shape meaning.Distinctively Visual can form meaning when the composers are either sending messages or emphasising certain aspects of a character, an event through the use of particular images. In act two, scene thirteen of the Shoe-Horn Sonata, Misto uses photographic background images to covey the Idea of what Is truly happens in the war field. 'On the screen we see a photograph of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima - the infamous mushroom cloud.
This is followed by a photograph of the devastated city.Also when Bridie stated they wasted no records of what they'd been doing' P. 80. These examples reinforce the responders to understand how the war is structured and how the government covers up past event or experience over time.
The images give a devastating shock to the responders and help compare the truth of war within current reality. Thus the audience are able to linking the different images to the events in this case when the war was occurring and after the war had occurred Images emphasising the truth of war.Enhancing distinctively visual Images can help the audience gain messages by the composer using the characters and their change of body language, facial expression and movements during a certain time in the text. Again in act two, scene thirteen of the Shoe-Horn Sonata, Misto uses body language to indicate the reaction of Sheila and Bridle through revealing the truth of what Sheila had to do to save Bridle's life.
ICalmly to Sheila] That Isn't the truth love... [Very gently. ] Do you want me to tell the truth? Sheila hesitates, looks at Bridie with both ear and gratitude.
Pause. Sheila nods. Bridie reaches out and takes Sheila's hand. 'p.
85. The responders are able to understand by both Sheila's and Bridie's body gestures of who difficulty they find It In revealing the truth. Most of the female audience would be engages due to the delicate situation of give themselves up to save someone else. Distinctively Visual can be emphasised through the effects of music and lighting were the audience can expanded on how the surroundings and setting help portray visual images form literacy.In act two, scene fourteen of the Shoe-Horn Sonata, Misto uses music combined with lighting to convey the joyfulness of Sheila and Bridie After all the secrets about the Japanese POW's in world war II was revealed.
'As they dance, the stage gradually grows darker and darker - except for a very bright spotlight on Bridle's shoe-horn. Bridle and Shella confidently dancing and the theatre Is filled with Strass' music... ' p.
91 . The responders gain a Joyful Imagery of Sheila and Bridie dancing feeling relieved that after 50 year of hiding the truth they have rejoiced that the war is ended having won victory by the truth being revealed.The significance of reading visual language is to help the audience puzzle together a distinctively visual imagery that the composer is try to demonstrate same with listening to song lyrics which restates the main point by the chorus. 'Lose Yourself by Eminem is about being famous in the music industry with the difficulty of pressure that occur in the music industry for popularity.Eminem uses dynamics and instrumentals to stay in a constant rhythm after verse one with repetition of the chorus.
.. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow, this opportunity comes once in a lifetime. The listeners are able to gather the truth about the music career and become more aware of what the composer feels when getting on the music stage to sing.
Imageries are formed when a composer uses the past experience of themselves or other to engage those audience that had a similar experience or understanding as the responders are able to view themselves if they were in that situation.Eminem uses second person throughout the song until verse three were he reveals the truth of what happened in his life. 'His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy... to All the pain inside amplified by the fact that I can't et by with my nine to five and I can't provide the right type of life for my family.
' The listeners can relate to this situation also modern day society every parent is working to provide for their family needs and the pressure they have been through helps in defining there past experiences.Composers use distinctively visual throughout the film scenes to help the audience grasp the idea of how the audios are linked with the visual images on the screen while watching the film. 'The Eye' directed by Moreau and Palud is about a girl named Sydney Wells able to see unexplainable things after undergoing eye surgery. Moreau and Palud uses flashback to describe the past events of outlining on how her eye donor has died. 'My apartment keeps changing. It was filled with smoke, and then I was attacked by this man.
..The responder understand that Sydney is fearful of the past events by transitions. When Sydney is looking at the mirror and comparing her photo to it, she sees to completely different people as the responders see completely two different images as well but the audience already know her true image. The Composer manipulates the emotions of the audience and to keep them engaged for the entire text by means of symbolic bjects or signs to help indicate an imagery of the next event that will occur.
Moreau and Palud uses symbolism that a person is about to die by Sydney being able to see a black ghost. 'l have to go now... No! Alicia.
Don't go with him! ' The responder know when the black ghost appears and takes the person who had died as Sydney sees the person soul going with the ghost. The audience gather that the person is died or is about to die feeling terrified and knowing that she is tell the truth of what she sees. Hence the composer uses the distinctively visual elements to help shape meaning and engages the responder through the entire text.The prescribed text 'The Shoe- Horn Sonata' and the related texts 'Lose Yourself and 'The Eye' highlights to us that there are many key elements that emerges from the idea of distinctively visual images. It is through using techniques such as Music, Lighting, symbolism, body language, transformation and dynamics that we are able to a clear indication of the theme of truth and have an imagery understanding of the text allowing the audience to have emotional effect Just as the character have in the text. Enabling the responder to link the situation back to reality, their own life style and experiences.
