she is introduced to the responder demonstrating the ‘kowtow’. The use of stage directions emphasises that her experience during the war has impacted her and continues to impact her physically and emotionally. Her recollections of the painful events of war are expressed in an emotion- free way which defines her as a strong persona. The use of tone ‘calmly’ whilst she describes her experiences: “The lightest I got was exactly five stone” exemplifies this notion. Throughout the play Bridie has a defined
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One of the central aspects of this poster is its use of images to depict scenes and ideas within the play ’The Shoe-Horn Sonata’. In this play‚ Misto creates meaning through his use of a linear timeline‚ which allows the reader to follow the events as they occur. This is crucial to the play as it causes the reader to become emotionally invested in the characters and causes them to question what happen in the camp to result in the present. This poster uses layout and gaze to create this effect of
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The use of distinctively visual elements allows responders to interpret and create meaning from otherwise complex concepts. John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ and Mike Subritzky’s poem ‘Sister’ both challenges the audience’s interpretation of the traumatic experiences of war. Through a range of distinctly visual techniques both composers help create an understanding of the power of time and the human spirit as overcoming adversity of war. As Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata develops‚ the distinctly
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Composers create distinctively visual images to draw aspects that they are presenting in their texts. This helps the reader to understand and visualise the characters responses to significant aspects of life. The Author Henry Lawson uses these distinctive images in his short stories ‘The Drovers Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’ to help portray the harsh realities of living in the Australian bush. These realities create significant experiences for the individuals in his stories as they are faced with hardships
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“composers employ the distinctively visual to reveal truths and elicit a reaction from the responder” Discuss in reference to the set text and one of your own choosing Texts tend to reveal hidden truths behind important events in our history‚ doing so in a way which illustrates the impact that war has on individuals who are involved in it. The Shoe Horn Sonata written by John Mito in conjunction with Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe reveals several truths of which responders were unaware. Some of
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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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The Distinctively Visual techniques are intrinsically critical to communicate between the composers’ ideas and goals to the audiences’ of their texts. The goal of these techniques are for the explicit purpose to allow the audience to visualise the events with a powerful sense of realism ‚ provoking a meaningful and significant insightful understanding and perspective of the world. Thus ‚ the composers’ often makes it a personal objective to influence the world stage on societal matters and issues
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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 as a play about two friends restoring their relationship
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Compare the ways the distinctively visual is created in Lawson’s short stories and in ONE other related text of your own choosing. Distinctly visual techniques are conveyed and compared in Lawson’s short stories and Catherine Hardwicke’s 2003 film Thirteen. Both Lawson and Hardwicke’s texts employ techniques such as personification‚ Imagery and flashbacks‚ which highlight and communicate the ways distinctively visual‚ are compared in texts. Henry Lawson establishes the harsh environment of
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In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual? Make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text. The distinctive quality of the visual relies on its potential to provoke some sort of emotion from the responders. Naturally‚ powerful visuals evoke emotions of fascination‚ sadness‚ anger‚ or will inspire an audience. Visual images‚ like all texts are produced for specific purposes and audiences and can therefore be
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