Identify
the image that in your opinion is the most effective in developing the story as
a whole and explain why it was effective. Did the image and written narrative
interact in a way the created irony, metaphor and/or metonymy?
The first image showing a new baby is extremely effective in
developing the story about life.
This image and written narrative interact to create an example of metonymy
because a new baby represents the idea that “life” is given to each human
being. New life and an infant are
synonymous.
Explain how
two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the
story.
The picturebook displays several elements that develop and support the
story. One is the color that is
used. The color is soft and uses
hues of green and gold are representative of life and peaceful calm. It is
evident that each human being is responsible for finding his/her own life and
what brings peace and tranquility.
Another element used in the images is the size and position of the individuals in the images. The focus is the people and the family that they compose. The reader then focuses on the concept of family and each person that contributes to the family.
Identify
two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how
these elements support the story.
Two repeated elements are the size and position
of the images as well as the soft hues of color that are used to tell the
story. The position of the family
members is central to the images as well as central to the story. The soft green colors and gold colors
used to represent a peaceful calm to identify with each person’s responsibility
to find the purpose he or she is created to serve.
1. Identify the image that in your opinion is the most effective in developing the story as a whole. and explain why it was effective. Did the image and written narrative interact in a way the created irony, metaphor and/or metonymy?
ReplyDeleteIn Cara Pinti’s storybird I believe the most effective slide is #2, the picture of the family outside enjoying the wonders of catching fireflies through their daughter’s excitement and energy. This is a good example of metaphor as we relate these intimate family moments to our own. I love this image! It is simple, but perfect.
2. Explain how two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
One element of the image that helps support the story is the idea of family and the moments we share together. The fireflies are beautiful, especially the one caught in the mother’s outstretched hands. We see the bright glow and begin to feel happy through the smiles on the figures faces. We feel and experience it all over again through them. The second successful element is the use of color in the image. Keeping most of the colors orange and yellow adds to the evening fire of the flies and the magic of the moment.
3. Identify two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
One element is the prescience of figures throughout. The next is the intimacy of the figures in each slide. The relationships between the figures in each slide are all intimate, whether they be close moments between lovers or ones between mother and child. Both of these elements help support the story and the idea of life being full of wonder and beautiful moments. These pictures are snapshots of moments in time we sometimes take for granted. It is important that we recognize these aspects of life as precious and try to make the most of the time we have on this earth with the ones we love most.
4. Does your peer's picturebook convey a different interpretation of the poem from your own? How? Why?
I linked my picturebook to family and the delights one can experience when growing one. My pictures are active ones where the figures are engaged in close, intimate moments in play or quiet ones before bed. Mine is more focused on a collective group amassing joy together through the choices and experiences of life. Cara went a similar route. She focused on a few areas of life’s relationships…that of mother and child, boyfriend/girlfriend and more seasoned mother with children more grown up. I feel that we had slightly different interpretations, but overall messages were almost the same. Mine and Cara’s picturebooks were more alike than mine and Joyce’s. All successful representations of the poem and I enjoyed looking at them all! Well done guys, we are almost there, keep it up!
1. Identify the image that in your opinion is the most effective in developing the story as a whole and explain why it was effective. Did the image and written narrative interact in a way the created irony, metaphor and/or metonymy?
ReplyDeleteTo me the most effective image was that of the family in the field catching fireflies. For me, there is not a huge leap between fireflies and finding purpose. They are exceptional insects and children are right to marvel at them. I could see them as a metaphor for being special or unique.
2. Explain how two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
Not only were the fireflies there to provide the metaphor I explained above, there is a sort of magic to the glowing twilight in which the scene is set. I think this reminds us of the seasons of life. There are times of work, but times of rest and reflection.
3. Identify two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
The most predominant element is relationship. There is a mother and child, a family of three, a pair of lovers. Each picture shows a relationship and we are reminded of how we each go through different stages of relationship in life.
4. Does your peer's picturebook convey a different interpretation of the poem from your own? How? Why?
I think our interpretations were very similar. We may have even featured artwork from the same artist in one or two moments.
1. Identify the image that in your opinion is the most effective in developing the story as a whole. and explain why it was effective. Did the image and written narrative interact in a way the created irony, metaphor and/or metonymy?
ReplyDeleteI believe the cover image is the most effective in developing the story as a whole. I think it is effective because it shows multiple forms of life and possibilities for the adult and child. The cover image doesn’t have any written narrative, but it conveys the sense and feel of the meaning of the poem.
2. Explain how two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
Color was carried throughout the story to create a connected feeling and the continuity of characters from the beginning to the end creates a good flow and story for the life poem. It also shows life as a journey from birth to adulthood.
3. Identify two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
Color is used to create a story with the pictures as the same colors are present in each image. The scale of the images is all the same with the same distance from the reader. The images emphasize the people in the images throughout the entire picturebook.
4. Does your peer's picturebook convey a different interpretation of the poem from your own? How? Why?
I think Cara’s picturebook conveyed the same type of interpretation as my own because it focuses on the people finding their own secrets and ways in life which is very similar to my own interpretation.