EA300B: Analyising Little Red Riding Hood Pictures

 

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How Pictures Work

By using a few clear principles, anyone could build a powerful visual expression that is emotionally charged by simply using arrangements of shapes on a page. This exercise will help you to understand Pictures can be built up element by element to produce specific feelings in the viewer.

Building a Picture

We see shapes in context, and our reaction to them depend in large part on that context.

When we see the shape of a hexagon, we invariably see a stop sign. But what if we use shapes to represent figures of our imagination.

Say, for example we were to use a triangle to represent a soft and cuddly little girl, like Little Red Riding Hood.

This figure is not exactly soft and cuddly. It isn't huggable because of the 3 points. But it seems stable with its flat, wide and horizontal base. It has a sense of equanimity or balance, becasue its three sides are equal. If it were sharper, it would feel sharper and pointier.

What about the color red? We call red a warm color, bold, flashy; sometimes referenced as danger, blood and fire.

These, then, are the feelings we can associate with this red triangle: stability, balance, sharpness or alertness, warmth, strength, vitality, boldnesss and a sense of danger. This then seems appropriate to represent Little Red Riding Hood.

How should we represent her Mother? We could show her mother as a bigger red Triangle, a bigger version of Litte Red.

What happened to Little Red? Now, the mother has become the more important object in the picture and has overwhelmed Litter Red. Little Red no longer appears to be the main character. ليش؟ لان الام اكبر حجم

Though this shape imples a mother who is warm, strong and protective, she is also overbearing and decidedly not huggable. How can we make her seem more huggable?

By rounding off her pointed corners, she does seem softer. But she still DOMINATES the picture. She draws attention away from Little Red because she is a bigger mass of red. How can we keep the mother large but also give Little Red more prominence in the picture?

By making the mother a paler color, she and Little Red are more equal in the picture. The CONTRAST helps Little Red to appear comparatively perky and bold. Now the EMPHASIS of the picture is now on Little Red. How do you feel about the mother now? Doesn't she feel more soft and huggable now?
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