Good morning‚ Year12 of Wyndham College. My name is Bazil and I am here to briefly discuss the play "The Shoe-Horn Sonata" by John Misto in relation to the use of dramatic techniques used. The Shoe-horn Sonata is concerned with the incarceration of two women held captive in a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp. Misto uses the play to demonstrate the devastation of war and the human spirit and will to survive‚ both prevalent themes throughout the play. Such themes are exemplified to the audience
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(Introduction - Introduce both texts and composer/director‚ short plot outline and link to question and examples) Photographs are a chilling reminder of the truth behind these women’s recounts‚ and an acknowledgement of their strength. Misto uses photographic images to achieve several things within his play. Firstly the images transport the audience to the world which these women are describing through their dialogue of memories. In Act One‚ whilst Bridie describes the evacuation of Singapore
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role towards Shiela‚ as evident when Shiela states “We fought all the time. You were worse than my mother” and when Bridie calls Shiela “My dear girl”. Therefore‚ the character of Bridie shifts in her role and perception throughout the play the Shoe Horn Sonata as a result of the truth being
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Visual Techniques in The Shoe-Horn Sonata • On Air Sign: Bridie and Sheila sharing their experiences as POWs with Australia = A visual reminder of the intrusion into their privacy. • Evacuation of Singapore on 13 Feb‚ 1942 alongside the Women and children boarding ships‚ clutching toys‚ waving goodbye. Women and children fleeing from the city that was about to be invaded by a conquering army. “It is hard to believe from their happy smiles that they are soon to be the victims of history’s worst
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John Misto‚ playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women’s story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this through a combination of dramatic techniques‚ themes‚ characterisation and settings making the past vivid and understandable. The characters presented in the Shoe-Horn Sonata are fictional‚ but the events
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position to experience the different impacts and emotions associated with the texts. These techniques allow the distinctively visual to have the power to manipulate the audience’s expectations and strong feelings towards the texts. The Shoe-horn Sonata written by John Misto and the short film‚ ’Lovefield’ directed by Mathieu Ratthe allows the responder to experience both positive and negative themes associated with the texts such as power‚ war‚ friendship and bravery which therefore enables them to
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Good evening year 12 of Model Farm High. My name is sunny and I am going to briefy discuss about the play Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto in relation to distinctively visual. The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play that shows distinctively visual narratives of female prisoners of war. Misto convey ideas of female survivors who live through war in Japanese camps suffering brutality from their violent Japanese oppressors. He does this by using visual techniques including photographs displaying humiliation
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto ‘Distinctively Visual’ After your reading‚ please answer the following questions to show your understanding. Please write in full sentences‚ in your own words‚ using evidence from the text where you can. 1 Describe what you see on the front cover of the play. What clues does this give you about the play? 2 After the Contents’ page there is a photograph. Who is this photograph of? 3 What do you learn from the information you are given about the
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fact that the purpose of a text can often be unnoticed and misinterpreted by the viewer. Many people only have a limited world experience‚ and it’s the Distinctly Visual feature of a text which allows the viewer to gain a better understanding. Distinctly Visual texts use a combination of techniques to create and shape an audience’s point of view or interpretation‚ and visualising a text requires the responder to interpret all of the images presented. The text Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto first appears
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heir language forms and features. The composer John Misto of ‘Shoe-Horn Sonata’ creates a wide image of distinctive visual techniques through imagery. John Misto uses this visual technique to raise awareness of the damaged chaos that occurred to the women who have been captured by the Japanese. By using distinctively visual techniques Misto allows the viewers to empathise with the crucial actors/segregation that the Japanese people were showing towards the women. “I wanted to cry. But I reminded
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