...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...
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...Their Own? Introduction Visual texts are widely accepted as being very informative owing to the saying that “pictures speak for themselves”. However, a lot of caution must be taken especially in the analysis of visual images as these images are prone to manipulations so that the objective they are meant to achieve can be met. Reading visual text requires one to understand, do proper interpretation and finally analyse. In the visual text we are seeking to analyse, we shall seek to ask ourselves certain questions in order to find out whether its objective is met. Source of text Our visual text of analysis is an advertisement of a young kid on one of the media; probably the television. In the visual text, there is some writing that accompanies the image that delivers the message of the disturbed kid to the mother. The writings seek to establish whether the mother of this kid has the capacity to bring up the kid in a situation where parents are not together. So how far for the teens is too far? The complementing message touches on a very crucial issue that requires all the affected parties to contribute. The question is “will you make it on your own?” Let us examine this in our analysis: The Body It is interesting to read the comments the kid is making to the mother. The kid appears to have a very clear and firm resolve that the mother will not manage to fully support her when the dad withdraws. As the controversy is unveiled in NYC, the visual text used in this case shows...
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...Their Own? Introduction Visual texts are widely accepted as being very informative owing to the saying that “pictures speak for themselves”. However, a lot of caution must be taken especially in the analysis of visual images as these images are prone to manipulations so that the objective they are meant to achieve can be met. Reading visual text requires one to understand, do proper interpretation and finally analyse. In the visual text we are seeking to analyse, we shall seek to ask ourselves certain questions in order to find out whether its objective is met. Source of text Our visual text of analysis is an advertisement of a young kid on one of the media; probably the television. In the visual text, there is some writing that accompanies the image that delivers the message of the disturbed kid to the mother. The writings seek to establish whether the mother of this kid has the capacity to bring up the kid in a situation where parents are not together. So how far for the teens is too far? The complementing message touches on a very crucial issue that requires all the affected parties to contribute. The question is “will you make it on your own?” Let us examine this in our analysis: Surname 2 The Body It is interesting to read the comments the kid is making to the mother. The kid appears to have a very clear and firm resolve that the mother will not manage to fully support her when the dad withdraws. As the controversy is unveiled in NYC, the visual text used in this case shows...
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...Write an analysis of the arguments made in visual rhetoric (the visual representations) related to a topic; use documentary/news photographs, print advertisements, or political cartoons/comics as your visual texts. Include a “dear reader” letter, a copy of the visuals (when possible), and an outline of your analysis. Requirements Complete MLA format and works cited page 4 to 6 pages Minimum of 3 visual sources with citations Minimum of 3 non-visual sources with citations Include: Dear Reader Letter, Outline of your argument Prompt Choose a topic of debate anchored in a specific period of time or a specific comparison of views. Study the visual rhetoric surrounding your topic, and make a specific claim about the way your topic is represented in your visual sources. Examine your visual sources through observation, breaking it into its parts and deciphering the visual text’s attempts to persuade/impact its viewers. study the arguments made in the visual texts from an informed position, so you will research your topic in reliable sources. The visual sources serve as evidence to support your claims and to connect your claim to the real-world in which the visuals were created and given purpose. The non-visual sources inform your analysis with knowledge, provide evidence that supports your claims about the visual texts, and act as background evidence that helps describe the discourse that surrounds your topic. Include a brief background that anchors the visual arguments...
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...Language Analysis Anecdotes Effect: encourage readers to agree with the point of view as it is a “real” issue Analysis: explain why it is used to persuade readers and how it is effective Emotive Language effect: how does it appeal to the readers emotions? How does it get the readers to respond at an emotional level? Analysis: how emotive language produces a reaction? How the context is significant in producing the effect Facts effect: help prove the issue Analysis: how does it help prove? Why does it need to be proven? Expert opinions effect: helps convince the readers Analysis: how did it help convince the readers? Why does the reader need to be convinced? What reasons? Rhetorical questions effect: encourages readers to seek a solution and agree with the writer. Questions themselves or whoever the question is aimed at. Analysis: how does it encourage the reader? Why are these questions aimed towards the readers? For what purpose? Repetition effect: leads readers to remember what is important Analysis: how did it emphasise the main points? What words were repetitive? How did the writer reinforce the writer’s idea? Statistics effect: encourages the readers to believe that research has proven a point Analysis: how is it effective in encouraging leaders and why did the writer use statistics? Tone effect: Encourages readers to feel the same Analysis: explain how the tone is produced. Why did the writer choose that tone? When does it...
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...Which has a greater emotional effect on the reader/viewer? A visual text or a print text? What we see and what we read from magazines, newspaper and articles all have a great emotional effect on how we feel. I think choosing between which has a greater emotional effect on the reader is to look at the reader themselves, if they are a more visual person then it is more likely that they'll have more emotion towards visual texts. Compared to a person who likes reading more, they might be more enhanced by the effect of descriptive words from a print text. In my opinion, visual texts have a more greater emotional effect on me. This is partly because I dislike reading. However, visual texts also includes some form of text in the image itself. In visual texts, you can see the image right before your eyes, and further analysis the picture by it's composition, color and other visual techniques. In print text, the difference is that it gives more information and it is more detailed. If I try imagining the picture in my head, it might not exactly be what the author is actually portraying. If a print text is trying to textually describe a picture the emotional reaction would not be as strong and it would take more time to digest the information. Unlike visual texts, the visual image itself is already there. It's like looking at a picture of something that has sentimental value to you, just looking at the picture brings up cherished memories and emotion. E.g. the triangle fire...
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...Become familiar with the Year 11 English course outline • Read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and answer the activities attached • Find the key words in your text and begin a glossary Your English teacher will collect this homework in Week One of Term One, 2014. All the best!! Failure to complete the required reading and activities will mean that you will be unprepared to begin the year and giving up time to complete the work afterschool. YEAR 11 ENGLISH UNIT 1 & 2 OUTLINE 2014 UNIT 1 Reading & Responding – Outcome 1 The Kite Runner - Text response essay (800 – 1000 words). Creating & Presenting – Outcome 2 Visual Text ‘Redfern Now’ - One written piece in an imaginative, persuasive or expository style (600 - 800 words) related to the context of Identity and Belonging + 2 hurdle tasks exploring imaginative, persuasive or expository styles. Language Analysis – Outcome 3 You will focus on the use of persuasive language techniques written articles and visual images. You will then produce a language and visual analysis essay. (600 – 800 words) Exam: Reading and Responding and Language Analysis - 2hrs 15mins • A reading and responding essay for The Kite Runner • A language and visual analysis essay on the issue studied in class UNIT 2 Reading & Responding – Outcome 1 The Crucible - Text response essay (800 – 1000 words) Creating & Presenting – Outcome 2 Minimum of Two – One written response in an imaginative, persuasive or expository style...
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...culture and how has it changed over time? What is the relation of culture to politics, the economy and structures of power? What is the relevance of culture to our everyday lives? What is popular culture and is it good for us? It addresses these questions not to give definitive answers but to engage the students in critical inquiry into the culture(s) in which they are embedded. As should be evident, LCS 270 is not an introduction to anthropology or global cultures. Rather, it is an introduction to methods of reading, interpreting and creating cultural texts in relation to broad political, ideological and historical contexts. The course understands "text" in the broadest of terms: any form of cultural production that is structured as communication, embodies messages or values, shapes forms of consciousness, and produces effects. LCS 270 will provide conceptual and theoretical tools to analyze a wide range of texts from various media. In the process we will gain new insights into the world around us and question our understanding of ourselves—how our identities as students, employees, citizens, and...
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...Analyzing Running Records Qualitative analysis involves looking at the reading behavior. The teacher looks for behavior evidence of cue use and evidence of the use of strategies such as cross-checking information and searching for cues. She examines each incorrect attempt and self-correction and hypothesizes about the cues or information sources the child might have been using. In Clay's analysis, cues refer to the sources of information. There are three major categories: Meaning- The teacher thinks about whether the child's attempt makes sense up to the point of error. She might think about the story background, information, from the picture, and meaning in the sentence in deciding whether the child was probably using meaning as a source. Structure-Structure refers to the way language works. Some refer to this information source as syntax because unconscious knowledge of the rules of the grammar of the language the reader speaks allows him to eliminate alternatives. Using this implicates knowledge, the reader checks whether the sentence "sounds right." Visual information- Visual information includes the way the letters and words look. Readers use their knowledge of visual features of words and letters and connect these features to their knowledge of the way words and letters sound when spoken. If the letters in the child's attempt are visually similar to the letters in the word in the text (for example, if it begins with the same letter or has a similar cluster of letters)...
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...2001). Encoding/Decoding is a theoretical framework devised to critically examine how society or the hegemonic institutions in society, disseminate messages implanted or ‘encoded’ (Hall 2001, p.167) with meaning ‘through the operation of codes within the syntagmatic chain of a discourse’ (Hall 2001, p.166). Hall’s model examines the processes in which television texts are constructed with dominant codes or ‘preferred readings’ (Hall 2011, p.172), whilst signifying theoretical strategies from which audiences can deconstruct and consume such readings existing within texts in correspondence to cultural and social conditions. Hall’s model laid the foundations for much ethnographic research; it is upon this premise and its comprehensive influence, that in this essay the advantages and limitations of his model will be evaluated with focus on how effectively it functions within the indicated parameters of specific texts and discourses. Hall’s model which is fundamentally a mode of communication and audience reception theory, stems from early models of which proposed to analyse how audiences interpreted texts through the visual and aural discourse of television. Hall utilised and developed upon preceding and often problematic models such as the Effects and the Uses and Gratification models. Conversely from a structuralist standpoint, ‘it took, from the effect theorists, the notion that mass communication is a structured activity, in which the institutions which produce the messages do...
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...Historically, print news has focused on the importance of text and where images have been used, little attention is given to the function of these images in conveying news discourse. However, the relationship between the verbal and the visual deserves further attention. Images have a powerful impact on a viewer’s response towards news and this impact cannot be created by text alone. A critical examination of three recent news events (see appendix) and analysis of the images that they utilise, reveals the communicative functions and the connotative force that is carried in news photography (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 57). By studying these photographs through analytical frameworks, we see that images embody much more than what is depicted within a frame and in fact they “have been worked on, chosen, composed, constructed and treated according to professional, aesthetic and ideological norms” for the purpose of engaging with their audiences (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 57). Prior to our analysis of the three articles, an overview of the analytical frameworks that will be used and their contribution to our understanding of news reporting must be investigated. News articles embody two different semiotic systems, language and image, which share an intersemiotic relationship (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 121). Research of this relationship focuses on the textual strategies deployed in the newsroom to elicit responses from the audience, the words help drive the pictures while the...
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..."Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" - Laura Mulvey In her "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey utilizes psychoanalysis theory as a "political weapon" to demonstrate how the patriarchic subconscious of society shapes our film watching experience and cinema itself. According to Mulvey the cinematic text is organized along lines that are corresponding to the cultural subconscious with is essentially patriarchic. Mulvey argues that the popularity of Hollywood films is determined and reinforced by preexisting social patterns which have shaped the fascinated subject. Mulvey's analysis in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" combines semiotic methodology of cinematic means of expression with psychoanalytic analysis of desire structures and the formation of subjectivity. The semiotic end of Mulvey's analysis enables the deciphering of how films produce the meanings they produce, while the psychoanalytic side of the article provides the link between the cinematic text and the viewer and explains his fascination through the way cinematic representations interact with his (culturally determined) subconscious. Mulvey's main argument in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is that Hollywood narrative films use women in order to provide a pleasurable visual experience for men. The narrative film structures its gaze as masculine. The woman is always the object of the reifying gaze, not the bearer of it (this has something reminiscent of John Berger's "Ways of Seeing") ...
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...READ WRITE LEARNING: ANALYSIS OF MY LEARNING Read Write Learning: Analysis of my Learning Strategy using the VARK Questionnaire Claudette Bryson Grand Canyon University Read Write Learning: Analysis of my Learning VARK is the acronym used to represent, Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic sensory learning strategies that are used to detect the learning style that is best for an individual. Each individual has a specified style of learning which can easily be identified with the use of the VARK technique. The VARK learning strategy was developed by Fleming (1997) to measure the difference in learning styles. The VARK technique can easily be identified by completion of a questionnaire provided online. Four different learning strategies reflected the experiences of teachers and students. Read/Write is the participant’s or learner’s learning style (VARK Questionnaire, 2006). The analysis that will be explored by the participant is the Read/Write learning style along with the multimodal techniques that are intertwined within the participants learning strategy. A contrast will be outlined by the learner to compare between the strategies outlined by VARK analysis and that currently being used by the learner. Sayles states that, Read/Write preference, that is, “information displayed as words, many teachers, and students have a strong preference for this mode” (Sayles...
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...THEORY OF VISUAL RHETORIC In this article, we are dealing with a meaning and representative reality of pictures. In todays world there are many pictures, shown and done in many different ways. We have various kinds of pictures in rich colours and textures. The objective of this article is to reorient the study of advertising images by advocating the development of a theory of visual rhetoric. When we are taking about rhetorical theory, we say that it is an interpretative theory that frames a message as an interested party’s attempt to influence an audience. The sender’s message must be send as obvious one. It is also important how the message is sent – style of delivery. It is important that audience understand the message, therefore he uses shared knowledge of various vocabularies and conventions. Receiver/s use this same body of cultural knowledge to read the message, infer it, evaluate the argument and formulate a response. If we want to explain advertising images as a rhetoric one, we need to understand that visuals must have certain capabilities and characteristics. Visual elements are for representing concepts, abstractions, actions, etc. There must be an ability to guide the order of argumentation and visual elements need to carry meaningful variation in manner of delivery. To explain a visual communication complex we would need a symbol theory of pictures: one in which visuals signify by convention and not by resemblance to nature. Author claims, that visual arguments...
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...VISUAL COMMUNICATION IN POLITICS Visual communication has been a main component of political communication. And, it importance has increased as television has become the major source of political information. It also known as idea that a visual message with text has a stronger power in persuades a person. Did you ever wonder why World War II propaganda posters so effective at manipulating popular opinion? This is because our human eye is always attracted to colored elements before black and white elements, and tends to visual before the text. Overall, research has shown that visual images are always more persuasive than spoken communication because it communicate in a way more easy to understand, more quickly and memorably. According to Dan (2015), experimental research in political communication has found that a single photograph of a candidate can influence voters’ judgments regarding that candidate’s demeanour, competence, leadership ability, attractiveness, likeableness, and integrity. Normally, politicians need media to get the exposure in order to win elections. Thus, some candidate with enough money will spend it on TV and print advertisements. And, it's not surprise to see that candidate’s family photos ‘accidentally’ spread around during the campaign. This may build a “kind” image by appearing with children and family members together. Moreover, the politicians also can use social networking software to get closer with their supporters and post news as...
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