William Robinson and Imants Tillers are both Australian landscape artists. Robinson born in 1936 and Tillers in 1950 both have a completely different stylisation in how they view and capture the land they paint. Imants Tillers Mount Analogue (1985) a mass media appropriation of Eugene Von Guerard’s North-East view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko (1863) is very alike to William Robinson’s Ridge and gully in afternoon light (1992.) They both use similar methods and materials to construct their artworks and though we in both artworks see a different view of a landscape, several key techniques and meanings both seen and felt are portrayed similarly in both artworks.…
Set in the outback of Western Australia, this novel centres around the disappearance of Kuj, an eight-year-old girl, during a bitter custody battle. Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from the city, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mysterious event. As Annie searches for the truth beneath the township’s wild speculations, she find herself increasingly drawn towards Mick Hooper, a muscly, laid-back Australian man with secrets of his own.…
“Run Lola Run” directed by tom Twyker and “ The Third of May” by Francisco Goya both use visual techniques to convey their message to the audience and involve the audience in the experiences that the images create. The mediums in which both the composers choose to convey these messages are successful in communicating to the audience the types of experiences that are represented in the images…
Composers use many techniques in their texts to use images to portray, places and ideas. Director John Ruane in his film Dead Letter Office uses multiple camera shots to portray Alice as a hopeful young girl waiting for her father to come home, and then as a young adult determined to find her father through her letters. Banjo Paterson uses literary writing techniques and adjectives in his poem, Clancy of the Overflow, to give us vivid images of the relaxing and calming life of the drover Clancy. Through the use of the mise-en-scene of Frank’s house, Ruane decorates the house with outdated and sparse furniture to tell us that Frank is not very wealthy and the positioning of the house on the outskirts of a suburb also tell us that he is alone and dislocated. The Queensland country is strong depicted in Clancy and the Overflow by the use of strong adjectives describing the landscape such as ‘sunlight plains,’and ‘everlasting stars,’ and ‘ river on its bars,’ are examples of the writing techniques that Banjo uses in this poem. In Ruane’s film, the pigeon Punt Road is used as a metaphor for home and as a metaphor for Aclice and Frank being trapped inside themselves and the release of Punt Road symbolises their release. The idea of a romanticised Queensland bush is brought about of Banjos Paterson’s use of creative writing techniques that is used whenever the city person is talking about the place that Clancy is at.…
The effect of the hardships of the environment on the drover’s wife is clearly seen through Lawson’s description of her physical appearance, “The gaunt sun-browned bush women”. This is further reinforced by the brutal and comfronting imagery used to portray her children as having a “ragged, dried up look”. Powerful imagery of the physical toll on this “once young city woman” is effective in establishing a strong impression of the woman battling against isolation in the bush.…
Across acres of harsh, barren land in “somewhere in Australia”, 4 contrasting characters are on the verge of despair (except the tracker himself) attempt to apprehend an Aboriginal man who allegedly murdered a white woman. Rolf De Heer’s haunting film tackles the controversial issue of the complicated relationship between Aboriginals and white men during earlier times. The 4 characters: the tracker (David Gulpilil), the fanatic (Gary Sweet), the new guy (Damon Gameau) & the veteran (Grant Page) interact with each other in a queer manner; very few words are ever spoken between them but the silence between them highlights their differences.…
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?…
Film and television has taken over the world we live in, becoming one of the most popular ways for different personalities to express their stories in local and worldwide settings. Film allows auteurs to capture the essence of time, emotional circumstances and cultural differences in order to create stories that linger in the minds of their audiences. In particular, this is demonstrated in Australian film. Historically, Australian film tends to explore the cultural difficulties associated between Indigenous and ‘white’ Australia. The relationship between these two very different cultures is showcased in the early years of film in an incredibly marginalised, stereotypical fashion, often portraying Indigenous Australians as mysterious, mythical…
In addition the powerful setting of the outback itself is seen to create the image of the settlers. The endless ‘travel’ motif in “That monotony that makes a man…
“composers employ the distinctively visual to reveal truths and elicit a reaction from the responder”…
The way in which we shape our meaning and perception of a text is manipulated by the distinctively visual images and techniques used by a composer to engage us in the situation and thus transport us to a particular time and place. Henry Lawson makes this obvious in the text, The Loaded Dog through creating relatable, distinctively visual images of mateship and humour to help us understand the need for distractions to endure the harsh Australian outback. Lawson uses more severe images in The Drovers Wife to paint a picture of the struggle to survive in the isolated Australian Bush. Conversely, Picasso’s Guernica parades a raw image of the destructiveness and terror of the Spanish civil war, enhancing our current knowledge by providing insight into the repercussions of warfare. Through the use of distinctively visual, Lawson and Picasso effectively engage the audience to transport them to the Australian bush in the late 1800s and the Spanish civil war, influencing the meaning and perception created by the reader in relation to each time and place.…
Distinctively visual texts are texts that allow the audience to create an image within their mind, using an array of language and visual techniques. Henry Lawson, an Australian bushman and author of the late nineteenth century, demonstrates the experiences of bush life through his numerous short stories. Other texts however, like a photograph or a painting, create an image or a scene in the viewers' mind to demonstrate particular experiences expressed within the text. Frederick McCubbin, also from the late nineteenth century, displays life in outback Australia through his paintings.…
The Experiences of living in the global village can begin to challenge and have a negative impact on an individual's values, beliefs and attitudes. Living in the global poses challenges such as the differentiating values of mateship, traditions and the notion of fairness and justice. These aspects are highlighted in the film The Castle (1997) directed by Rob Sitch. On the other hand The article Digital natives, Digital immigrants (2001) written by Marc Prensky highlights the complex dynamics of the ever changing technological forum, students of the 21st century thrive in.…
* A larger image not only takes up more hard-drive space, but it will also show up larger on your monitor and when you print it out. For example, a 5-megapixel image contains more horizontal and vertical pixels than a 3-megapixel image, so it will take up more space on your monitor when viewed at its full size.…
Since Facebook had been around for ten years already and it had helped bridge long gaps between families and friends, at some point it also helped others to find the…