Visual communication with Suzie

Hey all, at the start of the lesson we carried on finishing the posters that we started last week on 'Sense of Place'. Once we finished, one person out of each group had to hold our poster up and describe what is on there and why.
Suzie then told with us about how metaphors are useful and important in images, songs, films etc. Suzie then asked us to think of as many songs with lyrics that are metaphors, ours were:

• Lady Gaga - Marry the Night
• Adele - Rolling in the Deep
• Rihanna - Only Girl in the World
• Shakira - Hips don't lie
• Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
• Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

We then looked at a pile of images that were advertising campaigns. We had to say what the metaphor was, and order the images (Most shocking proocking to least etc.)

Finally, we watched a clip of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech that inolved a great deal of metaphors. Some of the metaphors i noticed were:

• Thirst for freedom
• Drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred
• Ocean of prosperity
• Bank of justice is bankrupt
• Palace of justice
• Wallow in the valley of despair
• Justice flows like water

That's all for Vis Com this week, Toodles!!!