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    techniques such as body language‚ symbolism‚ lighting‚ music and photographic background slides create distinctively visual images same with themes that are being used within the texts such as truth which is evident in the dramatic text ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ by John Misto‚ the song ‘Lose Yourself’ sang by Eminem‚ and the film ‘The Eye’ directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud featuring Jessica Alba. These three texts demonstrate how the responders are impacted and what is interrupted within the

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    The Shoe Horn Sonata By John Misto The scene from The Shoe Horn Sonata I chose was act 1‚ scene 1. The Play begins on a dark silent set‚ which evokes in the audience the darkness and pain of the characters memories as well as suggesting their stores have been hidden for too long. Out of the darkness with come truth. The play in scene 1 begins with an army nurse that is being interviewed for a documentary program about her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese. Misto cleverly

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    The play the “Shoe-Horn Sonata” written by John Misto and poem “Vergissmeinicht” composed by a British Tank Commander Keith Douglas use the distinctively visual to portray the idea of war and its consequences on people and their relationships. The use of lighting in the play and the poem help give the audience an idea of the mood that the protagonists are in‚ for example in the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata the use of dim light whilst on stage is used to great effect whenever Sheila or Bridie are

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    Images elicit certain emotions within individuals though it is skewered through their interpretation of distinctively visuals. This is a notion greatly emphasised within the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” composed by John Misto in order to bring forth concepts of truth and the atrocities of war. Misto does this through his manipulation of techniques to put focus on the experiences suffered by women during the periods of war to give us a better understanding of the event. Comparably the composer Kenneth

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    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

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    Shoe-Horn Sonata Compare the ways the distinctively visual is created in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and in ONE other related text of your own choosing. John Misto’s play “The Shoe-Horn Sonata” is a text that was written to acknowledge and honour the women who were once forgotten prisoners of war in World War 2. The play uses distinctively visual images and dialogue to create visual images of dehumanisation and the small idea of hope during this time. “Schindlers list” directed by Steven Spielberg also

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    in the Australian Play ‘shoe Horn Sonata’. Through the use of the great dialogue‚ and pleasing dramatic techniques‚ misto explores‚ through sheilas and brides demonstrations and flashbacks the story of the thousands of women including bridie and sheila kept prisoned by the Japanese. On the other hand‚ the poem ‘the send-off’ written by Wilfred Owen‚ was also set in a war‚ ww1. This poem is about the send-off of the soldiers and is very similar to the Shoe Horn sonata as it also reflects a sad disappointing

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    music. John Misto the composer of Shoe-Horn Sonata demonstrates the effects of post-traumatic stress‚ survival and friendship throughout the play with the use of film and dramatic techniques. Misto illustrates the viciousness of the Japanese to highlight the strength and resilience of the women. These women had been captured by the Japanese during WW11 and were taken into hostage‚ they remained in camps‚ where they had been brutalised. In Shoe Horn Sonata‚ John Misto highlights the horrific

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    The Shoe Horn Sonata- The Shoe Horn Sonata provides an insight into the lives of two women who were made prisoners of war by the Japanese and explores the little known and horrific conditions and events the women endured. With the use of distinctively visual techniques‚ John Misto brings Bridie and Sheila’s experience vividly to life. Through the use of projected images‚ sound‚ music and symbolism; the horrors of war‚ survival and resilience are portrayed throughout the drama. Misto uses an

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    use of projected images‚ music and dialogue‚ distinctively visual texts represent challenging aspects of life effectively. This is portrayed through texts such as John Misto’s play The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ Kevin McDonalds docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters‚ Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play‚ Misto was concerned

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