Which consistently appears throughout the film, most notably; during the scenes involving supernatural encounters with Cole, Malcom and Anne putting on knitwear, when Malcom is with his sleeping wife, Vincent’s figure expression in the Bathroom and when Anne is down in the basement. The combination of the voyeuristic camera work, the use of low-key lighting to create contrast, the intentional use of a cast shadow coupled with the use of figure expression of shivering to denote the apparent cold temperature, also to underpin the mysterious, eerie and supernatural qualities of the film. These elements also hint to a latter scene by manifesting a sense of paranoia which turns out to not be justified later in the opening sequence. It becomes apparent that Malcolm and Anne have a good solid relationship. The figure expression highlights the physical contact, the proximity they share when sitting down, the intimate physical contact and even how she
Stephanie Roatis 3/10/12 Fisch, Freshman English Acc. Sometimes people can escape from a hard life or a stressful time by detaching themselves from the world. In The Tenement Room, Chicago by Frank Marshall Davis, a person is trapped in a bruised and battered tenement room. The writer uses powerful techniques to paint the picture of a poverty-ridden life for an individual and uses the room as an extended metaphor for the person living in it, spiritless and defeated. During the day when everything is easily visible, the harsh points of poverty stick out and are accentuated.
Sensory imagery in "the knives of light", demonstrate the torture of the rays of light spearing down at the homeless victims of meth. As the prays of the metho, they fear their weakness of bright lights relating our imagination to vampires, along the slightly sheltered walls, alone and cold. The alliteration in "dead dark moon", resembles the feelings of the metho drinker, and distinguishes the death he feels inside. Wright effectively convinces us through the lively language and sensory images of the impact of the pain of metho and the suffering he endures every day as an outcast of society. Pain and suffering are clearly the outcome of metho, Wright is successful in creating the reality of suffering the effects of metho, hence the poem "Metho
Bradbury uses imagery to depict the looks of Mildred, “… her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect for behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting and her flesh like white bacon.” (Bradbury 48) The image of Mildred’s grotesque looks shows a picture of the effects of being isolated from the outside world, because the reader realizes that Mildred looks the way she does because she is always inside with the “family”. Bradbury also uses allusions to portrait isolation and loneliness. “The twelve tribes of Israel wandering in the desert seeking a new nation can be recalled here as Montag, Granger, and
This short story offers a real sense of its dramatic dialogue, describing the very nature of isolation and its eerie sense, dwelling in several scenarios throughout this story. Glaspell sets off with the muddled feeling of the house where the murder investigations take place, the so called
However, when the shot cuts away again to a half-naked girl exercising in her window, the protagonist's smile suddenly appears creepy (Geiger & Rutsky, p. 480). The close-up shots of Stewart also serve to portray his 'imprisonment' inside the room. Also, according to Geiger and Rutsky, Hitchcock uses an "extremely rich and complex sound design," with "frequent use of snatches of conversation, the sound of a radio, and street noises," (p. 477). This complex mix of sounds contributes to the suspense at times, particularly when the focus is on more mechanical noises, such as those from the street, but it is less of a factor in Rear Window than in Hitchcock's other films. In The Birds, Hitchcock utilizes close-up shots of the children fleeing the school, as well as close-up shots of the birds attacking them.
From the visual techniques used there are many ideas communicated to the audience as we can feel a sense of loneliness, depression, and desperation. Even though she is in a dark world that is hopeless, the small picture of the red leaf indicates that she is clutching onto a small glimmer of hope. The writing with this picture lacks punctuation and has negative connotations to show that she is starting to give up hope. Later on into the book there is a page where the girl is seen standing on a stage with the colours of light and dark juxtaposing with each other, which creates a meaning that, she is surrounded by darkness. The vector lines in this image points to her face, making her the focal point and the composition of the objects are foreign, cluttered together and form negative connotations.
Texts which are considered distinctively visual tend to move, cause reflection and to shock the audience. The play Shoe- horn Sonata and the image of Napalm Girl convey the Horrors of War, Resilience of Women and the Importance of Friendship. These ideas are brought to life by the dramatic techniques employed by John Misto in his play and the Journalist that took the image Nick Ut. The use of dialogue, stage directions, projected images music and imagery techniques all help to engage the ideas and make them indeed distinctive. Distinctively visual texts influences the audiences understanding of people and events within the play Shoe – Horn Sonata which conveys to the audience the horrors of war through the use of dialogue and sound effects
Sentences ans sections of poems are repeated which gives the impression of Hinley slowly losing her mind throughout the poem. Duffy uses language very effectively, in parts of the poem almost creating a sense of sympathy for Hinley at the same time as making her seem evil. When reading the poem Duffy’s opinion of Hinley is hard to understand. She seems to sympathies with Hinley in some areas of the poem however in other areas the poem emphasises how evil Hinley is. During the first stanza Duffy creates the impression that anyone could become a murderer and this creates the impression that she seems interested in Hinley especially since it is stereotypically men who commit crimes like the Moors Murders .
All of these are used to subtly reference the overall air of darkness and horror apparent in the novel. In one instance, Victor is at the cemetery mourning the loss of his loved ones, and he remarks that “Everything was silent except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark, and the scene would have been a solemn and affecting even to an uninterested observer” (Shelley 193). Victor would also have nightmares about the monster suffocating him and he would hear “groans and cries” ring in his ears. The metonyms add a parallel between the reader and the story by using commonly creepy circumstances to expedite the preexisting airs. In Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”, Roderick informs his friend that Madeline had mysteriously died.