1. Technique Analysis Key Scenes Page Heading

2. Definition: A technique is the way in which a composer constructs meaning. In Distinctively Visual, you may only use visual techniques. This means techniques that encourage or allow you to visualise or see what is going on. Sub-heading

3. This means you can not use techniques that are based in sound or other language devices.

4. Techniques you can use… 1.Literary… Descriptive language, imagery, metaphors, similes, symbolism, personification, motifs 2.Visual… Stage directions, body language, images (photos etc), lighting Techniques you can use with care … 1.Literary … Allusion, contrast, juxtaposition, parody, repetition Sub-heading Using techniques:

5. Techniques you can not use… 1.Literary … Alliteration, assonance, sarcasm, cliché, onomatopoeia, rhyme, music, emotive language, direct speech, etc

6. How to use unusable techniques Talk about their relationship with visual techniques. Therefore the relationship and interaction becomes the technique. Sub-heading

7. Visible and Invisible Is the relationship between what you see and what you hear about, and know is around but you never see. It is deliberately hidden. The Shoe-horn Sonata is a play with only two settings and two characters. Even though there are other important places (the POW camps, the Daid Jones Food Hall, Chatswood) AND other important and present people (Rick, other POWs being interviewed) Sub-heading

8. To make meaning WHY?

9. People and places which are visible and prioritised by the composer. All the focus is on them. They are important. What other people, places and objects are seen and what other people, places and objects are unseen? Visible and invisible continued

10. Visual and Written Visual elements are those things that you see… Body language, lighting, facial expressions (indicated by stage directions) and images (pictures put up on the screen) But being able to see things is does not tell you the whole story. To make sense of what you are seeing, you need to recognise how important the things that you read/ hear are (music, quotes etc) and how they add to your knowledge of what you see. Sub-heading

11. What aural elements are there in the text? What visual elements do they reinforce your understanding of?

12. In Summary The only way to talk about non visual elements in Distinctively Visual is by talking about how they reinforce or add meaning to the visual elements. Sub-heading

13. 3 Key Scenes Scene 4 Scene 8 Scene 14

14. Scene 4 In this scene, the obvious tension in the relationship between Bridie and Sheila is contrasted with the sacrifice the women made for the same friendship in the face of the atrocities of the POW camp.

15. Scene 4

18. Scene 8 In this scene, the tension between Sheila and Bridie comes to a head with the revelation of Sheila’s sacrifice.

19. Scene 8

21. Scene 14 This is the final scene in which we see Sheila and Bridie finally begin to leave the war behind.