The below multimodal text is a graphic novel titled ‘Let’s go to the Park’ and uses two key semiotic systems being the visual mode of image and the mode of writing. I have combined the two semiotic systems to engage the reader and create further meaning and connect with the reader on an emotional level. The images used can create a mood and provide greater understanding and meaning across the text.
A graphic novel is a multimodal text that combines pictures and words and places them together creatively to tell a story and provide further information and meaning to the reader (Thompson,2008,6). The way in which I placed the images within the graphic novel Let’s go to the park provides the reader with a visual image to support the words and
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These Visual elements can include colour, shading, panel layout, perspective and lettering style (Shwarz, 2006,59). In my graphic novel Let’s go to the Park, I used images with an illustrative feel to create the vision I had in my mind when writing the text and wanted to express that to the reader. A younger target audience is clear by the images and written text used in the graphic novel. The visual element of lettering style is noted through out the text with a different font used in the title to attract a younger audience. For example, the title is big, bold and the font is childlike or hand written in its appeal. A larger font was used throughout the text to highlight key descriptive words. For example, the words ‘Woosh, in the sentence Woosh down the slide we go indicates the volume of the word and its intensity to express meaning to the reader. Art principles such as size, shape & border style can be changed and developed to create a different response from the reader and allow various story interpretations (Bongco, 2000,60). Therefore, visual elements used throughout the text can be used to express greater meaning and highlight intensity to connect with the reader on an emotional
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
By creating a rhyming function, the shapes, sizes and sites across panels privilege a unique composition of the image compared to all other pages. Also, the dimensions of panel 1, 2 and 4 associated with a rhetorical layout which intends to conform to the movement and track of Lucy and random gamers on the street from left-hand page to right-hand page within the pre-existing framework of narrative (Peeters, 41-60). Concerning the speech balloon of one gamer outside the gutter across panel 1 and panel 2, the words function an addictive combination elaborate and amplify the image that the reader is not able to understand why they run away without the words, and vice versa (McCloud, 154). All panels in this page interact with each other and lead to the identical sequence – Lucy runs away for Pikachu, by following this coherent narrative, iconic solidarity as an approach to the hypothesizing linear reading method across all panels (Groensteen, 114). A similar page layout emphasizes the movement of the protagonists in Michael Straczynski’s Thor comic by creating dynamism
Imagery plays a big part in the success of a novel. Different writers have different styles. The good thing about imagery is it makes room for the reader to put things together. The reader is allowed to interpret the story the way that they like. "Ragged Dick", Horatio Alger, Jr. did a great thing with imagery. While reading the novel readers had a change to envision many things that were mentioned in each chapter. Algar interconnected the appearances of the main character to his living arrangement. He also connected these things with the character's attitude.
objects in the story with visual descriptions to give focus to the reader's imagination. In the story,
Foreshadowing, symbolism, and image are all elements which compose style. All are very important; foreshadowing adds suspense, and symbolism contributes to interpretation. Image contributes "visual aids" which, also, aid interpretation. In this classic short story, "The Scarlet Ibis," by James Hurst, foreshadowing, symbolism, and image combine to create a true literary masterpiece.
The analysed text is the inside cover and first pages of a magazine entitled, Visit Goulburn Australia (February 2015), an advertorial magazine which, as the title suggests, attempts to persuade readers to visit the city of Goulburn. The magazine utilises various different formatting features in order to garner attention to important aspects of the text, and creates a relationship between author and audience through inclusive nouns, whilst simultaneously using emotive vocabulary in order to more effectively garner reader interest in visiting the Goulburn region. The way a text is formatted can greatly influence how a text is perceived and absorbed by an audience. The magazine utilises various textual formatting features such as colour, bold, and font size in order to capture
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
It is very easy to agree with Moebius statement that ‘good’ picture books contain some form of invisible and intangible concepts that keeps the reader returning. In Voices in the Park it is very easy to see Moebius idea due to the ability of technology to create detailed and complex books. In contrast, Potter has produced a book that more subtle in showing this relying not on technology like Voices in the Park but working within severe limitations. Blending page turns, text, colour to create understandable concepts. Goodman comments that some would argue that these elements in pictures interfere with and detract from the text, and thus undermine the confidence of the reader. An extrapolation of this idea is that preconceived ideas and pictures of another spoil the reader’s entrance to literacy.
When writing any sort of narrative, be it novel or poem, fiction or non-fiction, scholarly or frivolous, an author must take into account the most effective manner in which to effectively convey the message to their audience. Choosing the wrong form, or method of speaking to the reader, could lead to a drastic misunderstanding of the meaning within an author’s content, or what precisely the author wants to say (Baldick 69). Even though there are quite a bit fewer words in a graphic novel than in the average novel, an author can convey just as much content and meaning through their images as they could through 60,000 words. In order to do that though, their usage of form must be thoughtfully considered and controlled. Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic memoir The Complete Persepolis, took great pains in the creation of her panels in order to reinforce and emphasize her narrative, much like a novelist utilizes punctuation and paragraph breaks. Through her portrayal of darkness and lightness, Satrapi demonstrates that literary content influences, and is primary to, the form.
In the park written by Gwen Harwood, was originally written under a male pseudonym. The poem represents the idea of changing identity because of certain circumstances as well as challenging common ideas, paradigms and values & beliefs which is commonly held amongst mothers in today’s society.
Particularly tree, one of the main, elements used bu Thom Jones in his story "A white Horse" , Symbolism (designed to convey impressions by suggestion rather than by direct statement), Contrast (which is a distinction between two ideas, objects or co lours.
Piper’s use of imagery in this way gives the opportunity for the reader to experience “first hand” the power of words, and inspires the reader to be free from the fear of writing.
The classic comic book is a polar opposite of the complex nature of poetry. The comic book is designed for the younger reader and possesses a simplistic nature that allows the creator to use visual media combined with short written dialog to tell a story. The pictures in a comic book are an integral part of the makeup of a comic book. The pictures allow the creator to portray the protagonist and antagonist in a way that is common to all readers. This however inhibits the use of imagination by the reader. The pictures are all an artist's interpretations of the actions and settings that make up each scene. When a person reads descriptive text with no pictures, it allows the reader to build a mental picture of each scene that is unique to his/her own personality. The comic book does not allow for this expressiveness in its prefabricated structure.
The visual description of a text is the perfect way to wrap the reader’s senses into the story.
The use of multiple images to propel a narrative allows the audience to learn something through the characters that are there. Bloomer (1990)’s study on visual perception also draws upon Newton (1998)’s concern, as he explores the multiple perspectives and views of the event. By using a series of images, the characters mood and tone can be established throughout different elements of what we see. This may be the people, the place itself or the items within the place. By having a narrative of photographs, the audience has an even deeper understanding of the reality of that moment or event as they see more than just the ‘big picture’ as