Study Guide ||| WEEK – 20 |||
Starting to look at images in children's books
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Children's books contain illustrations and images of a
variety of types.
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We will look to their functions, meaning and
significance.
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They are decorative embellishment to a story whose
real meaning lies in the word.
THIS IS IMPORTANT ACTIVITY FOR
FINAL EXAM. THIS IMAGE COULD BE COME TO ANALYSIS
Activity 5.1 / P.206+207: What might we
already know?
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Illustration is a
representation of Little
Red Riding Hood.
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The small red triangle is the most
salient element here; it stands out because of its colour
and positioning, even though it is smaller than black lines
surrounding it. A hood may take a similar
triangular shape; so aided by colour red, we can make link to Red Riding Hood.
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The strong black vertical lines have
an air of permanence and stability, as do
trees. Their number and proximity suggest a ‘forest,’ even though
illustration is actually just an arrangement of geometric shapes on a page.
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If black lines can be
interpreted as ‘trees,’ red triangle can be seen as ‘hiding behind a tree.’
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These
illustrations are by Molly Bang: an American illustrator and teacher of
illustration.
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She shows how a
fairy tale can be constructed visually using a series
of shapes.
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She starts with
a simple red triangle,
and adds ‘trees.’
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As scene
progresses, Bang resizes Little Red Riding Hood to make her smaller,
places her further from the foreground
to emphasize her vulnerability,
and tilts a tree onto the diagonal to add a
sense of threat.
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Starting with 3
black triangles, she begins to make the wolf.
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Finally, she darkens
the background to portray a
more threatening sense of
darkness and night-time, and adds more geometric shapes to develop the wolf further.
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Bang
bring to fore much background knowledge we already have, making this explicit
by showing at once surface simplicity
and deeper complexity
of knowledge we need to read, see and understand
picturebooks.
Activity 5.2 / P.208: How pictures 'tell' = important
ما من عبد مسلم يدعو لأخيه بظهر الغيب إلا قال الملك ولك بمثل.
