Analysis of Visual Text of Ten Minutes Older: Histoire D’eaux
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Analysis of Visual Text of Ten Minutes Older: Histoire D’eaux
Introduction
Text, as an extensive term in language, includes words to describe something in which text is a communicative act as linguistics. However, in the theory of literary, a text refers to the object which being studied, whether it is a film, a TV or a film (Sonesson, 1998; Noth, 1994). The text is considered as a way or a space to interact and convey experience or other things (Kress, 2003; Knobel and Lankshear, 2004). With the development of text, the expression method of text has taken place a lot of changes. Nowadays, visual text, as a new type of text, has accepted by more and more people due to its audio-visual. Visual text means a special type which adopts a combination of verbal features (such as language and words characteristics) and visual features (such as graphics and pictures) to express the information to others. In the study, analyze a visual text of Sunflower painted by Vicent van Gogh who is a Dutch post-impressionist painter.
Ten Minutes Older: Histoire D’eaus based on three structures of visual text, direct meaning, indirect meaning and metaphor.
Direct Meaning: Story and Thesis
From the point of direct meaning of the movie, the story of Ten Minutes Older: Histoire D’eaus tells a story about the metempsychosis process of a person’s afterlife. The point of penetration in the movie is water which can be seen in figure 1. The whole menu is full of flowing water wave which refers to the elapse of life. The similarity of them is elapsing quietly all the time. In conclusion, the picture gives a lot of moral of life for people. As Mikkonen (2005) pointed that a graphic is worth thousands of words and nobody can exactly describe its true meaning. Furthermore, in the movie, water, as the line for the development of the story, is not only an indicator of recording the life travel