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Help me interpret this image please UPDATED
Amigu
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Hey guys just wanted to say I held my speech on tuesday and the teacher said it was one of two best speeches in the class and that's in part thanks to your contributions so just a big thanks from me!
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Ay guys I’m doing a speech this Tuesday at school for English. We were told to pick our own text and make a speech about how it affects our understanding of journey.
I picked this four page manga by Range Murata called Groundpass Drive. I’ve been using a sheet that explains the basics of visual language to interpret the meaning of the different scenes because I’m quite new to visual texts. Ok it’s been going quite well and I’ve come up with some really good stuff, however this last image is leaving me a bit confused.
Obviously the two are parting ways. It seems she is a bit tentative, judging by her body language and they booth don’t have eye contact, signalizing uncertainty. It’s hard to say whether they are parting ways forever or what exactly is happening and it can’t be concluded from the rest of the story because the context of their partnership and their journey is left ambiguous throughout.
I can see that the train line on which he is standing crosses ways with the road and that vectors outside of that (like the power lines and road markings) are enforcing the impression of a cross road.
Now my mother thinks there is a bit of danger in this picture, with him standing on the railroad and with the yellow and black colors. I’m not sure if I see it, it seems very idyllic if anything.
Do any of you guys have experience with this type of thing? I’d love to hear your opinions.
Also there’s some Japanese writing integrated into the picture. Here’s a close-up. Does anybody have a translation? I thought it might add some meaning to the picture. Although it could just be the artists signature or something.
Hey guys just wanted to say I held my speech on tuesday and the teacher said it was one of two best speeches in the class and that's in part thanks to your contributions so just a big thanks from me!
Original post:
Ay guys I’m doing a speech this Tuesday at school for English. We were told to pick our own text and make a speech about how it affects our understanding of journey.
I picked this four page manga by Range Murata called Groundpass Drive. I’ve been using a sheet that explains the basics of visual language to interpret the meaning of the different scenes because I’m quite new to visual texts. Ok it’s been going quite well and I’ve come up with some really good stuff, however this last image is leaving me a bit confused.
Obviously the two are parting ways. It seems she is a bit tentative, judging by her body language and they booth don’t have eye contact, signalizing uncertainty. It’s hard to say whether they are parting ways forever or what exactly is happening and it can’t be concluded from the rest of the story because the context of their partnership and their journey is left ambiguous throughout.
I can see that the train line on which he is standing crosses ways with the road and that vectors outside of that (like the power lines and road markings) are enforcing the impression of a cross road.
Now my mother thinks there is a bit of danger in this picture, with him standing on the railroad and with the yellow and black colors. I’m not sure if I see it, it seems very idyllic if anything.
Do any of you guys have experience with this type of thing? I’d love to hear your opinions.
Also there’s some Japanese writing integrated into the picture. Here’s a close-up. Does anybody have a translation? I thought it might add some meaning to the picture. Although it could just be the artists signature or something.
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Jeez thanks. I see so much more clearly now. Oh well time to... you know learn japanese.
I've already interpreted three of these images and I listed everything I can see in this one too. I'm not asking for people to do my homework, I'm asking them for some input. Believe me I've put several hours of work into this speech already.
I've been struggeling with this one though. Here's my notes so far
You say she's bowing, but it's also a lean forward. It implies a desire to join him (or to not leave him), bringing herself slightly closer to where he is.
They're separated by not one, not two, but three vertical lines -- the right rail of the train tracks, the right post and the right yellow-and-black gate. There are three distinct things dividing them, and even though the girl is leaning, she isn't crossing the boundary. It's a severe division.
Take those as you will.
Now I get to go back to writing about escapism in the plays of Tennessee Williams. :?
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Hey yeah! Thanks for that I hadn't noticed those two points at all.
Definitely building that into my observations.
The seperation might be larger than I thought. This is actually pretty good because on the page before that they miss thier left, which I interpreted as a missed opurtunity that can never be regained because the journey goes on.
Perhaps that was just a build up to this larger missed opurtunity between these two people who are parting at a crossroad they'll never come back to because their seperate journeys will continue also.
Dang I like that!
Some people might say I'm reading into this to much but hey that's what the speech is about, you can't just say "Dis pictor is preddy."
Intresting you should bring this up because I also get that impression when I first looked at the picture. Ofcourse knowing that they were driving along together for three pages prior to this makes it more likely that they are saying their good byes. Strangely though he was driving in the other direction until now though, so why did he turn around?
Maybe this picture isn't in a chronological order and what we're seeing here is the meeting that preceded the journey. Ok that's intresting, why did he put it at the end then... I guess maybe he's trying to say something about the ongoing nature of journies. That would play nicely into the circle and spiral symbology that I observed on page 2.
So the picture is ambiguous it could be the start or the end of a trip.
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