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Creating Meaning in Images

Creating Meaning in Images. A Representational Metafunction. …is about the people, places, and objects within an image –the represented participants (RPs) …answers the question, “What is the picture about?”. Narrative vs. Conceptual. Narrative-Structured Images

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Creating Meaning in Images

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  1. Creating Meaning in Images

  2. A Representational Metafunction • …is about the people, places, and objects within an image –the represented participants (RPs) • …answers the question, “What is the picture about?”

  3. Narrative vs. Conceptual • Narrative-Structured Images • Narrative images allow the viewers to create a story about the RPs because the image gives the appearance of motion • Conceptual-Structured Images • RPs are grouped together in a specific way to present the viewers with the “concept” of who or what they represent

  4. Examples - Narrative Action – story is created by bodies, tools, limbs placement, etc. Reaction – story is created by eye lines between RPs

  5. Examples - Conceptual Symbolic – RPs are important for their message

  6. Examples - Conceptual Classificatory- RPs as of “kind of” something. Analytical- RPs are displayed in terms of a “part-whole” structure

  7. Useful Questions • Who are the represented participants (RPs) in my image? Include both human and non-human objects. • Are there are any portrayed movements in the image that indicate action? If so, what kind of story does this action tell? • Are the human RPs looking at each other, creating eye line meanings? If so, what does this tell me about the history of these people? • If there are no portrayed movements, what is the image trying to tell me in terms of concept? What types of conventional thinking do different objects evoke in me? • Is the image a complex one with more than one process embedded within it? If so, how do these embedded processes add to my overall understanding of the image? • In terms my overall idea, does the choice of image RPs best get my point across?

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