Shoe Horn Sonata
Question!
HOW DOES THE USE OF THE DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL EMPHASIE THE WAYS THAT INDIVIDUALS RESPOND TO SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF LIFE?
The distinctively visual connects an image with an idea. To illustrate the effectiveness of the distinctively visual in emphasising the ways that individuals respond to significant aspects of life, two uniquely Australian texts stand alone; the prescribed text The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto written in 1996 and the epic 2008 film Australia by Baz Luhramm. Both texts deal with aspects of war and the importance of truth. Each text, whether it be a dramatised stage play or a film script, has a composer who has the capacity to emotionally transport an audience to a different time and place by bringing the written word to the visual medium through their evocative and highly innovative choice of the distinctively visual.
In act one: scene 1 Bridie and Shelia, the two fictional characters, are a visual and dramatic representation of the women who faced the real life experiences of the Australian and British female POW’s captured while trying to flee from Singapore in 1942. In 1996 John Misto created a dramatized staged production which exposed a “untold story of hundreds of women imprisoned by the Japanese in South East Asia as a ringing indictment against Australian indifference to the lots of these women”. Distinctively visual features are purposefully included from the play’s opening scene to aptly recreate the reality of their past experiences, which begins in complete darkness. Two deliberate and commanding hand claps are they first things you hear, this is used to capture the attention of the audience. The word “Keirei” is cried out upon command by the male Japanese guard, gender and power inequality are further established as an older women’s emotive dialogue is heard giving instruction to how to bow, in tribute, to the Emperor of Japan. A spotlight shines down on a women who is demonstrating how to bow properly, she is stiff
HOW DOES THE USE OF THE DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL EMPHASIE THE WAYS THAT INDIVIDUALS RESPOND TO SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF LIFE?
The distinctively visual connects an image with an idea. To illustrate the effectiveness of the distinctively visual in emphasising the ways that individuals respond to significant aspects of life, two uniquely Australian texts stand alone; the prescribed text The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto written in 1996 and the epic 2008 film Australia by Baz Luhramm. Both texts deal with aspects of war and the importance of truth. Each text, whether it be a dramatised stage play or a film script, has a composer who has the capacity to emotionally transport an audience to a different time and place by bringing the written word to the visual medium through their evocative and highly innovative choice of the distinctively visual.
In act one: scene 1 Bridie and Shelia, the two fictional characters, are a visual and dramatic representation of the women who faced the real life experiences of the Australian and British female POW’s captured while trying to flee from Singapore in 1942. In 1996 John Misto created a dramatized staged production which exposed a “untold story of hundreds of women imprisoned by the Japanese in South East Asia as a ringing indictment against Australian indifference to the lots of these women”. Distinctively visual features are purposefully included from the play’s opening scene to aptly recreate the reality of their past experiences, which begins in complete darkness. Two deliberate and commanding hand claps are they first things you hear, this is used to capture the attention of the audience. The word “Keirei” is cried out upon command by the male Japanese guard, gender and power inequality are further established as an older women’s emotive dialogue is heard giving instruction to how to bow, in tribute, to the Emperor of Japan. A spotlight shines down on a women who is demonstrating how to bow properly, she is stiff