Life Poem Picturebook
Analysis
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?
I chose this image as the cover page and the picture that is most effective in developing the story as a whole because it shows people of different ages discovering and engaged in finding something new. I think it represents the poem well in the way that it relates finding the secret to life that has to be discovered by each person in order to find happiness. I believe the image does create metonymy because it connects possibilities for life with the orbs of light and the fascination created by discovering new secrets in life.
2. Explain how two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
The elements that are shown in this image are color and composition of the image itself. The color is soft and in the warm color family of oranges, yellows, red, and browns. The colors support the warmth that can be felt with discovering new possibilities as well as positive attitude. The image itself focuses on the orbs of light which can represent many different ideas to each person in the picture and can have different interpretations, which relates to the poem about each person discovering their own secrets in the world.
3. Identify two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
Color - the images all have a color scheme that is repeated throughout the picturebook. Also, the way that the colors are used to highlight the people or idea in each picture is carried throughout each image.
Size/Scale - Each image has a direct correlation to size and creating an emphasis on the enlarged/reduced focal point. For instance, the third page shows people, the sky, and a giant tree with the people being significantly reduced to emphasize the possibility of numerous secrets represented by the vastness of the sky and the size of the tree.
Color - the images all have a color scheme that is repeated throughout the picturebook. Also, the way that the colors are used to highlight the people or idea in each picture is carried throughout each image.
Size/Scale - Each image has a direct correlation to size and creating an emphasis on the enlarged/reduced focal point. For instance, the third page shows people, the sky, and a giant tree with the people being significantly reduced to emphasize the possibility of numerous secrets represented by the vastness of the sky and the size of the tree.
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 couldn't pick just one image, that was most important in developing the poem. I feel that the image with the mother holding the baby and the child looking siting outside and looking at the stars are equally important. The child looking at the stars is a metaphor for searching answers in the stars.
2. Explain how two or more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
I feel that the illustrations flowed together. Each image built on the next image, to help develop the story.
The use of color in the images also helped to create the story as well.
3. Identify two elements that are repeated throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
The use of color and the expressions in the character's faces. The expressions on the character's faces help to tell the story. You can feel the mother loving the baby she is holding and the child looking up in the stars makes you interested in what he or she is thinking.
4. Does your peer's picturebook convey a different interpretation of the poem from your own? How? Why?
We both have a different interpretation of the poem. I interpreted each line of the poem and Gina interpreted the poem as a whole. I like that everyone has a different interpretation of this poem.