HELP plz! due in a couple weeks-imaginative journeys texts (1 Viewer)

[atinaa:-)89]

hey everyone
I'm doing a collection assignment at school for additional imaginative journey texts and I wonder if any of you guys could help me identify how these texts represent journeys and what techniques are used to do so.

film-The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl
novel-The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
lyrics-Yellow Submarine

Also, if you could please help me generally with what techniques are used in films, print texts, visual texts and picture books etc. , I would appreciate that a lot.

Thanks heaps for any help ppl

 

[-pari-]

look for- what does the text say about imag. journeys?

cant help you specifically with your texts, but things like
-what do imag. journeys involve? does your text support that they're long, difficult, perhaps shared by other ppl, maybe they resemble reality, or are more like fantasy etc etc
- what do imag. journeys lead to? do they teach the person anything?

as for techniques
look out for symbolism, there's generally a lot of that in fiction texts.
films...watch out for the music both diagetic non diagetic...the scene the characters are in - their background, surroundings etc
look at camera angles, lighting, camera movements....

how do these things help convey the msg on imaginative journeys?

novels - obvious language techniques - metaphors/similes etc
symbolism,
what tense is used? past? present? look at the structure of the text

also look into the context of texts. that always sounds intelligent how does the background affect the text?


hope that helps =)