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Picture Analysis: William's Adventure To The Moon

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Good morning, today I will be presenting to you my picture book. The picture that I have created is called “William’s adventure to the moon”. This visual novel is targeted at children ages 8+ years and older as it is easy to read with some difficult words. It has variety of colours and pictures which makes the book interesting and fun. (Read novel)
In the beginning of my blurb it reveals some background knowledge of the main character. This allows the audience to connect with the character, seeing whether they have similar traits to the protagonist. The second and third passage of the blurb provides a short recount to the audience to understand what adventure William is about to go on. The final passage uses rhetorical question which adds a …show more content…

The most salient image on this slide is the queen, successfully indicating to the audience that she is important as she wearing a princess peach crown and a bright white gown making stand out of the other characters.
The audience can assume that the queen holds a lot of power from the use of invisible vectors as she is looking down at William representing herself as more superior. This can also be seen in Williams perspective as he looks intimidated, looking up at the queen. This also reveals to the viewers that the queen is very demanding as she alerts William to return to Earth immediately without introducing him to her companions.
The colours brown, white and green strongly emphasises the natural atmosphere and rocky setting. We can also see that the browns and greens are the colours of her accomplices, these colours are darker and do not stand out, signifying the audience that her companions are inferior to her. There inferiority can be established as they are all hiding behind her and do not contribute with no dialogue. (NEXT …show more content…

This establishes that heading home is his top priority as he is still frightened from what he has seen on the moon. This effectively indicates to the audience that he doesn’t want to look back and think about his recent experience on the moon as it was a horrific scene.
By enlarging the size of the rocket ship, it allows the audience to understand William’s rush to leave the moon; establishing his impatience on returning home. This is aided by the layout of the image as the rocket is in the middle third of the picture to get the viewers’ attention.
Here can see that the image of the Earth is larger than the moon signifying to the audience that the Earth is his most important destination. We can see that the size of the moon is smaller than the rest to successfully display that the moon is not important to William anymore. The written text provides a better insight of the image, reinforcing William’s emotions, actions and thoughts as he leaves. Reading path guides the audience to the specific images which is aided by the positioning of the moon, rocket and earth as they are all arranged one after another. The colourful streaks and the stars from the contextualised background aid the reading path to naturally guide the audience so that they can understand the image

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